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lullaby
[ luhl-uh-bahy ]
noun
- a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
- any lulling song.
verb (used with object)
- to lull with or as with a lullaby.
lullaby
/ ˈlʌləˌbaɪ /
noun
- a quiet song to lull a child to sleep
- the music for such a song
verb
- tr to quiet or soothe with or as if with a lullaby
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Origin of lullaby1
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Example Sentences
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.
Gervais 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.
A child's preference for the mother's singing is, perhaps, a half reminiscence of the soft-low tones of the lullaby.
Twas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.
The night winds sing her lullaby, and little children hear the music of her voice and look into her answering eyes.
She gave the gun to Polly, and told her to walk up and down the porch with it and sing a lullaby.
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