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
It is not my purpose to attempt to lull to sleep in fancied security those who have been influenced by those suspected of being unnecessarily active in fighting windmills.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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 Berthold Auerbach
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 T. O. Russell
Lull′aby, a song to lull children to sleep, a cradle-song.—v.t. to lull to sleep.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
