[
UK
/lˈʌləbˌaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈɫəɫəˌbaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫəɫəˌbaɪ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep
- a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep
How To Use lullaby In A Sentence
- Darlene came back on the phone, interrupting a lullaby version of `Tax Man". THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
- The child-like simplicity of the slow movement is rendered as a lullaby, and the finale has punch without the application of brute force.
- The wind sang its gentle desert lullaby, and the prisoners' fires crackled and snapped quietly.
- The word lullaby has been in the English language since the Middle Ages - one of several, such as rockaby and hushaby, which show how generations of mothers and caretakers have helped their children fall asleep through music. Archive 2010-01-01
- The lullaby had the baby into the Land of Nod in half an hour.
- The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
- When the fairies sing a song, they add pleasing variety to the play's ample store of lyric forms: for their 'roundel' or dancing in a ring, they sing a lullaby. Shakespeare
- Lemar, who came third in the reality TV show competition, will be wowing the audience with songs, including the tune Lullaby which he composed along with fellow contestant Ainsley.
- When a baby in its cot began to cry a sound activated motor would rock the baby's cradle, play the soothing sound of the swish of the sea and a lullaby in tandem if necessary to soothe and settle the child.
- I believe a hiss is music to his ears and a curse is a hushaby, lullaby song. The Thunders of Silence