lull to sleep
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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
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
The words startled me; they woke a chord which, do what I would, I could not lull to sleep or silence.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia
In the more remote parts of the kingdom the proceedings of the visitors threatened to wake the religious strife which she was endeavouring to lull to sleep.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard
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.
