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
Even the great rushing river, as it glides down the gentle slope of the rapids, makes no noise except a deep, musical murmur that would lull to sleep rather than startle.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
The winds and waters sing afar Their song of sighing strange and wild To lull to sleep the petted child.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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
There are too many beings who thus lull to sleep all initiative, personal life, and absorb themselves wholly in the idea that they are prepared and ready for sacrifice.
From Wisdom and Destiny by Sutro, Alfred
