lulling

Example Sentences

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When the curtain rose on opening night, audiences heard it as the opera’s opening number: Clara, seated on a dock in Charleston, gently lulling her baby to sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

So it was surprising that Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, started hosting a YouTube show, the purpose of which appears to be lulling viewers to sleep.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025

It’s a mood exacerbated by every lulling re-emergence of composer Ishibashi’s searching score — which always gets interrupted, as if a plug had been pulled.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

But the voice in their ear lulling them to sleep is not from Mr. Stewart, who died in 1997.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2023

His voice is lulling, hypnotic, but my heart speeds anyway.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black