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lullaby

[luhl-uh-bahy] / ˈlʌl əˌbaɪ /
NOUN
nighttime song
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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

Cheerful illustrations accompanied by rhyming text enumerate little acts of love over the course of a day, from early-morning wake-ups to indulging requests for one more bedtime lullaby.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

“Writing a lullaby helped to preserve the maternal aura that had to be maintained in ghettoes and camps with large populations of women and children.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

“I’ll get Kuda’s old cradle from the basement—and the lullaby robot—and the stuffed elephant. Tendai used to sleep on it for hours. Let’s see, I’ll need formula.. ..”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Few artists can draw from both worlds, but they collided in her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?—pillow-soft vocals and blown-out drums, singer-songwriter lullabies and sonic battering rams.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

Rolling Stone described “Transatlanticism” in 2003 as “11 indie lullabies … ostensibly about a long distance relationship.”

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

They revered silence, considered birds their guardians and sang their babies lullabies: Utalá tapey-’é, uá utalá dioi — sleep little one, the sun has gone to sleep.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2024

When Izzy recently decided to go back in the studio to record a new album, which includes some of the lullabies she plays, she wanted to invite Rupert too.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2024

Walt bought Billie a Gianini guitar, on which she strummed lullabies to soothe the fussy newborn.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

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 Ritchie, Eric Moore

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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

Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits," like Lumpy Gravy, Duke of Prunes and Who Needs the Peace Corps.

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 Bridle, Augustus




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