lullaby
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But wanting to show “a more vulnerable side of Santos” this season, Briones worked with her own actor father, Jon Jon, to find a Filipino lullaby that she could sing to baby Jane Doe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
To reflect the 100-plus languages spoken in the Philippines, they selected a Hiligaynon lullaby called “Ili Ili Tulog Anay.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
He guesses that Kopycinski, who lost two sisters at Auschwitz, “probably dedicated the lullaby to a son from a previous marriage before his deportation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
I feel so helpless that I can't even understand what a lullaby means.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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He adds that the musical repertoire at Ravensbrück, a camp for women and girls, included several lullabies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Forever spouting hilariously wrong theories about the Traitors, I started to feel bad for him when his teammates made fun of him as he sang backwards lullabies played by creepy dolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 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
As children, we were sung lullabies, read bedtime stories.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Walt bought Billie a Gianini guitar, on which she strummed lullabies to soothe the fussy newborn.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
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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
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
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
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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
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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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