strum
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Starting from when he was 11 years old, Armenta would write lyrics in journals and strum along to the guitar his brother bought him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
"I've wanted to take up the guitar ever since I seen my granda play. I was only six or seven when I started trying to strum his guitar."
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
At the 1969 Montreal recording of “Give Peace a Chance,” only two acoustic guitars strum along.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
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 traverse oceans and continents.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Now he started to strum another tune, which prompted Elvio and Catarina to get off the floor and start a queer sort of twisting, arm-waving dance.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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
Her raspy but commanding voice is one you cannot miss when she strums her guitar or banjo.
From Salon ● May 19, 2024
He strums the guitar and softly delivers the lines:
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024
Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello croons union songs and strums his guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
She sits looking out to the sea and strums the oud lightly as if it were fragile.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
She persuaded me to play a cajón for the first time as she strummed her guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
“Stay on That” is one of the slinkier numbers on the album, with rapidly strummed guitars and a wah-wah squawk that recalls Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
String quartets strummed their way through classical covers of pop hits.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 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
A few kids strummed on guitars or used their log as a drum set.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
Chip falls in with a troupe of street performers, evades the police, juggles along the Seine and eventually wanders into a smoky bar, where Penelope is strumming her guitar.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 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
They rolled down the homestretch for the first time, and Pollard felt the rightness of Seabiscuit’s stride, the smooth strumming under him.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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