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
In one of the film’s most stirring moments, indicative of its quiet power, Duvall keeps his back to the camera as he sings a lullaby hymn only for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
The album’s second hit love song, “Baby, I Love Your Way,” is a rock lullaby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
We know of this lullaby because Liebeskind, who was later killed at Sachsenhausen, transmitted the song there to Alexander Kulisiewicz, a Polish musician and political prisoner who had an eidetic memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Even the footsteps of the night watchman added only an accented quarter-note to the silence that had become a hum, a lullaby.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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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
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
After birth, a baby is immediately immersed in a sea of words and rhythm, as their caregivers coo over them, chatter and sing lullabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
And she recalled her grandfather singing Irish lullabies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
“What kinds of lullabies will I sing at night? What kinds of legends will my daughter be told? What kinds of charms will I give her to ward off evil?”
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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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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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
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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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