lull to sleep
Example Sentences
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Our expert content team has a way of sprinkling soothing magic on all of our Sleep Stories through the narrator's cadence to the background music to get people to lull to sleep.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2024
"His problem is to lull to sleep the beast in man, and to awaken the man."
From The Created Legend by Cournos, John
In song and story, and from generation to generation, they've been handing down all sorts of fables, just as they do with children whom they lull to sleep in the dark.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
On such occasions, however, I had but little scope for displaying my heroism; for the abbe, whose vigilance nothing could lull to sleep, was always at our heels.
From Mauprat by Young, Stanley
Even the great rushing river, as it glides down the gentle slope of the rapids, makes no noise except a deep, musical murmur that would lull to sleep rather than startle.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
