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Ever since a couple of bandmates were late to rehearsal a decade earlier, when DeBardi first realized he could strum a guitar and strike a drum in the same motion, he’d occasionally performed solo.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

They strum and sing together in her kitchen and in the park, and she offers frank notes on his songs, the shared experience of making music allowing them to somehow traverse oceans and continents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

She briefly began to strum her guitar again before hastily exiting the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

She doesn’t want a rupture; as the production ascends from a modest folk-rock strum to a big harmony chorus, she only hopes honesty will clear the air, so “I can love you better.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

Your banqueting young lords are here in force, I gather, from the fumes of mutton roasting and strum of harping—harping, which the gods appoint sweet friend of feasts!”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Except that there aren’t any Ed Sheeran things like this: a single, unbroken camera shot of the ginger-haired English songwriter as he walks, runs, sings and strums his way around New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

“KPop Demon Hunters” strums some the same chords in a more innocent key, swapping in a K-pop trio for Delta blues masters.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

The guitar also made an appearance in the movie “Help!,” where Lennon strums it as the band plays “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

He strums the guitar and softly delivers the lines:

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024

Leaning against a wall of the colmado, he strums the stock with eyes shut, singing songs to himself under his breath.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

We hear a Fender Rhodes piano, strummed electric guitar and a spare trumpet, conjuring images of a late night in a smoky club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

Chalamet abandoned the Bob Dylan impression heard in the film but still strummed away at the guitar.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

Here, as Madonna sang and strummed a guitar, the song seemed to acknowledge the cost of that process while urging us on all the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

When Pythagoras strummed a string, the string sounded a clear note, the tone known as the fundamental.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

It shows relatives outside a cabin, including her grandfather—a movie-star-handsome man strumming a guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

As they shot the breeze, McCartney started strumming.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

Toward the end of the six-minute song, Chalamet strode into the shadows and reemerged with an acoustic guitar in hand, strumming it for a moment before smashing it to bits as Dylan’s song concluded.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

When Cap wasn’t in the lotus position in front of his locker, he was usually in the music room, strumming a guitar and singing to himself.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman