lullaby
a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
any lulling song.
to lull with or as with a lullaby.
Origin of lullaby
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How to use lullaby in a sentence
They found the perfect lullaby on YouTube — “12 hours puppy sleeping music” — that prepared him for nap time.
At doggie day care, a pandemic puppy spends his first day without mom and dad | Emily Davies | July 29, 2021 | Washington PostFatherhood crops up in his lyrics from time to time, as in a hidden track on the “Breach” album, a lullaby addressed to his “baby bird” set to a chiming, music-box tune.
Jakob Dylan has always been part cowboy-troubadour, part rabbi | Tim Greiving | July 9, 2021 | Washington PostLove songs and lullabies, which sometimes may not be easy to tell apart, differed because love songs demonstrated a larger range of accents and pitches.
He was particularly intrigued by the fourth type, lullabies.
Listeners had little trouble telling dance songs from lullabies or healing songs, given their tempos and beats.
But then that night, Dad played it back to me in bed, like a lullaby, my own recorded voice singing myself to sleep.
Washington loves a lullaby—like the one about both sides deserving blame for the decline in bipartisanship.
Michael Tomasky on the GOP’s Rush to the Right in Congress | Michael Tomasky | February 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTGervais sings Elmo a “celebrity lullaby” and even offers him a “celebrity cup of milk.”
It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneA child's preference for the mother's singing is, perhaps, a half reminiscence of the soft-low tones of the lullaby.
Children's Ways | James SullyTwas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.
The Cruise of the Shining Light | Norman DuncanThe night winds sing her lullaby, and little children hear the music of her voice and look into her answering eyes.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyShe gave the gun to Polly, and told her to walk up and down the porch with it and sing a lullaby.
That Old-Time Child, Roberta | Sophie Fox Sea
British Dictionary definitions for lullaby
/ (ˈlʌləˌbaɪ) /
a quiet song to lull a child to sleep
the music for such a song
(tr) to quiet or soothe with or as if with a lullaby
Origin of lullaby
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