noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
regain your composure (= become calm again )
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He paused for a few moments to regain his composure.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
keep
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After relating the bare facts of the suicide decades later, Dan looked away, shuddering to keep his composure .
lose
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De Gaulle, however, did not lose his composure .
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Gwendolen loses her composure and huddles in terror.
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They lose their composure so easily.
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A good director of middle-brow comedy, he loses his composure when matters turn serious.
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Quakers didn't lose their composure after the break.
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And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure .
maintain
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Marcos's widow Imelda broke down in tears but her daughters Imee and Irene maintained their composure .
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Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
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Little boys, in particular, are taught to suppress their tears and to maintain their composure at all costs.
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Barbara, as usual, seemed to be placing a premium on maintaining her composure .
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That I maintained my usual composure was to me a miracle, and once more we were on our way to the frontier.
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Men strove to maintain their composure .
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Remember to maintain composure in your behaviour, and to answer questions succinctly.
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I maintained my composure , but made plain that I thought this was a really stupid policy, and left.
recover
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Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure , by which time it was way too late.
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He began to recover his composure .
regain
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She was trying desperately to regain her composure .
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Freed from the stones' strange attraction to its parts, H-5 regained its composure and lived up to expectations.
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Glenn Hoddle's Swindon regained their composure as County lost theirs.
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By the time he regains his composure and manages to return home, he realizes that he has thrown away his life.
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He looked stunned, almost in a trance, but he soon regained his composure .
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Slowly a sense of her own power made itself clear to her, and she regained her composure .
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She looked out of the car window, struggling to regain her composure .
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To regain her composure , she opened the wine bottle in the kitchen and took a sip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gone was the vagueness, gone the composure .
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He spoke without much prompting and I was encouraged by his composure .
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Her rickety composure had nothing whatever to do with him.
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Its owners showed far less composure , and streamed towards us from all sides.
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She was trying desperately to regain her composure .
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Slowly a sense of her own power made itself clear to her, and she regained her composure .
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Wagner remembered that Tuesday with quiet composure , neither tearful nor vengeful.