lullaby
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But wanting to show “a more vulnerable side of Santos” this season, Briones worked with her own actor father, Jon Jon, to find a Filipino lullaby that she could sing to baby Jane Doe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Say, for instance, a fluffy Sasquatch, or a crooner of a moon in pajamas singing an old-timey lullaby to all the little ones seated cross-legged on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Jepsen continued posting on Instagram about her maternity journey with fans, in January posting photos from the beach, from home and from fitting rooms as she spoke about finding a lullaby for her child-to-be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
We know of this lullaby because Liebeskind, who was later killed at Sachsenhausen, transmitted the song there to Alexander Kulisiewicz, a Polish musician and political prisoner who had an eidetic memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Her voice drifted through Ella's head like a lullaby.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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And while Anglo-American lullabies are typically written in major keys, Gershwin chose a minor one—evoking the depth and dignity of such African-American spirituals as “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Soon to enchant the audience with her honeyed vocals is Judeline, the Spanish Venezuelan singer known for her heavenly electronic pop lullabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
They revered silence, considered birds their guardians and sang their babies lullabies: Utalá tapey-’é, uá utalá dioi — sleep little one, the sun has gone to sleep.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
When Izzy recently decided to go back in the studio to record a new album, which includes some of the lullabies she plays, she wanted to invite Rupert too.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
They cradled her head and sang lullabies to their lost children through her.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Which leads to an obvious question: Are there bands that can’t be lullabied?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
The breeze lullabied the conker tree and the conker tree lullabied me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Into this they ran, and there they spent the night, serenaded by the roaring gale, and lullabied by the crash of falling spires and the groans of rending ice.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It is not often in life that one slips into dreamless slumber on soft grass, lullabied by the night-song of a south-wester in pine trees centuries old.
From With Botha in the Field by Eric Moore Ritchie
The lullabying born-again crooner of the mid-2000s was initially far less interesting.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2015
Virginia Mayo was looking beautiful and Doris Day was lullabying.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2010
She hauls the lot of them into her bed and heart, lullabying away their fears and wringing tears from the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Raising Arizona she earned the usual critical raves as canny, resilient Ed McDonnough, lullabying her purloined baby to sleep with a grotesquely poignant backwoods ballad.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We almost had Provincial Premiers lullabying to their Cabinets: "Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye."
From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle
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