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Starting from when he was 11 years old, Armenta would write lyrics in journals and strum along to the guitar his brother bought him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

"I've wanted to take up the guitar ever since I seen my granda play. I was only six or seven when I started trying to strum his guitar."

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

The music is an arena-country crescendo, from acoustic-guitar strum to full-band impact topped by pedal-steel guitar, along with gospel-organ underpinnings and country quavers in Beyoncé’s vocal lines.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

And because the musicians play so precisely onstage — each strum in place, each groove just right — the songs differed little from the versions permanently stored in your head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

I strum a couple of chords from a tune I’m hoping to play tonight.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The score is a comical barrage of harp strums, as if heaven’s angels have gotten good and drunk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Except that there aren’t any Ed Sheeran things like this: a single, unbroken camera shot of the ginger-haired English songwriter as he walks, runs, sings and strums his way around New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

“KPop Demon Hunters” strums some the same chords in a more innocent key, swapping in a K-pop trio for Delta blues masters.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

“It’s a lot of talking going on while I sing my song,” she observes in “Ameriican Requiem” over guitar strums and electric sitar, adding, “It’s a lot of chatter in here.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

She sits looking out to the sea and strums the oud lightly as if it were fragile.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The crowd listened in silence as the Polynesians, wearing blue fire uniforms, sang a Tahitian hymn in harmony while two of them strummed ukuleles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday strummed on a guitar and also went to a shopping mall destroyed by a Russian strike as he visited Kyiv to show his country's support for Ukraine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Over a lightly strummed acoustic guitar, she describes a desire to get off the grid and return to wide-open spaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Sure of everyone’s attention, he cocked his head and strummed, pausing to listen to the sound.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“It has none of those elements one sees so often: festivals of wrought iron, little Juliet balconies, guitars strumming in every corner,” he recalled in his 1998 interview.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

I groaned as strumming Spanish guitars played underneath a cheerful introduction welcoming me to the “Jewel of the Missions” — a slogan that boosters coined decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

As they shot the breeze, McCartney started strumming.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

But then we see him at the top of the cliff, strumming the banjo that Maude gave him, choosing to live, although he’d just lost what led him to come to the conclusion.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

His massive tongue rolled up over his moustache in preparation and, strumming, he began to sing, “Tarye no longer; toward thyn heritage / Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole