lullaby
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Say, for instance, a fluffy Sasquatch, or a crooner of a moon in pajamas singing an old-timey lullaby to all the little ones seated cross-legged on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Jepsen continued posting on Instagram about her maternity journey with fans, in January posting photos from the beach, from home and from fitting rooms as she spoke about finding a lullaby for her child-to-be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Why would someone compose a lullaby, of all things, at a death-camp?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“The lullaby is a highly prized musical form,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
My favorite song is a Cuban lullaby, and I love the way Baba sings it with a whisper of a Yiddish accent.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
“Today I chase horizons wide. But your lullabies still echo inside.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Instead, the group work through a mix of lullabies, folk and gospel, switching from Spanish to Congolese to Swahili in rounds of four-part harmonies.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
Soon to enchant the audience with her honeyed vocals is Judeline, the Spanish Venezuelan singer known for her heavenly electronic pop lullabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
And she recalled her grandfather singing Irish lullabies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
They cradled her head and sang lullabies to their lost children through her.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Which leads to an obvious question: Are there bands that can’t be lullabied?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
The breeze lullabied the conker tree and the conker tree lullabied me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Into this they ran, and there they spent the night, serenaded by the roaring gale, and lullabied by the crash of falling spires and the groans of rending ice.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is not often in life that one slips into dreamless slumber on soft grass, lullabied by the night-song of a south-wester in pine trees centuries old.
From With Botha in the Field by Eric Moore Ritchie
The lullabying born-again crooner of the mid-2000s was initially far less interesting.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2015
Virginia Mayo was looking beautiful and Doris Day was lullabying.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2010
In Raising Arizona she earned the usual critical raves as canny, resilient Ed McDonnough, lullabying her purloined baby to sleep with a grotesquely poignant backwoods ballad.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hauls the lot of them into her bed and heart, lullabying away their fears and wringing tears from the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
We almost had Provincial Premiers lullabying to their Cabinets: "Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye."
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
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