strum

Example Sentences

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"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

Worries escalated as this new cohort of generative AI tools threatened the livelihoods of people who write, draw, strum or code for a living.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

She briefly began to strum her guitar again before hastily exiting the stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

She doesn’t want a rupture; as the production ascends from a modest folk-rock strum to a big harmony chorus, she only hopes honesty will clear the air, so “I can love you better.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

While my mom continues to reminisce, I reach for my guitar and strum a few notes in a minor key that have a melancholy edge to them.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar