lull to sleep
Example Sentences
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Our expert content team has a way of sprinkling soothing magic on all of our Sleep Stories through the narrator's cadence to the background music to get people to lull to sleep.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2024
In song and story, and from generation to generation, they've been handing down all sorts of fables, just as they do with children whom they lull to sleep in the dark.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
He reached the chamber door, where stood Around his followers young and good, Bard, minstrel, charioteer, Well skilled the tuneful chords to sweep, With soothing strain to lull to sleep, Or laud their master dear.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Where could such grateful languor o'er Him creep, Or what more soothing murmur lull to sleep?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The words startled me; they woke a chord which, do what I would, I could not lull to sleep or silence.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia
