strumming
Example Sentences
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“Too many people that don’t know Mississippi think of it as a river, steamboats and some old guy strumming a banjo on a broken porch,” says Mr. Carswell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
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
But a video featuring him strumming a guitar with his young castmate Ezra Agbonkhese, who plays Tommy’s son Benjamin, is one of the sweetest.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
Rikk remembers coming home from school and strumming heavy, pissed-off chords on a family guitar.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
He looks up at Gabriel, still strumming, still singing, and he sees resting on his shoulder a two-foot-tall Lazarus woodpecker.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
