- present participle of strum.
strumming
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From the opening title track, we get quiet-to-loud structures with ominous minor-key guitar strumming that explodes on choruses, becoming saturated with distortion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“It has none of those elements one sees so often: festivals of wrought iron, little Juliet balconies, guitars strumming in every corner,” he recalled in his 1998 interview.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
As they shot the breeze, McCartney started strumming.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
But then we see him at the top of the cliff, strumming the banjo that Maude gave him, choosing to live, although he’d just lost what led him to come to the conclusion.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
His massive tongue rolled up over his moustache in preparation and, strumming, he began to sing, “Tarye no longer; toward thyn heritage / Hast on thy weye, and be of ryght good chere.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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