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Example sentences for "lulled"

Lexicographically close words:
luks; lukt; lull; lullabies; lullaby; lulling; lulls; luma; lumbago; lumbar
  1. He drank down the whole of his flask of brandy, and then fell into a kind of doze lulled by the sing-song voices of his companions.

  2. The monotony of their song lulled the valley to sleep.

  3. And twittering thus, he at length retired, with good wishes for the patient's recovery, glad that by wonderful presence of mind he had lulled the Abbess's suspicions.

  4. The still dim shrine no longer lulled to devout prayer the soul of Masago.

  5. The Hojo must be lulled in false security, and awake to a sense of danger only in time to perish.

  6. The regular rhythm of their breathing lulled to repose.

  7. The heavy night- exhalations of the leaves lulled them to sleep, and sometimes they were only wakened by the tremor that passes through everything when the sun rises.

  8. Poor people, who understood nothing of the laws of life, nevertheless awakened, disappointed, out of the drowsiness into which the rhythm had lulled them, and stirred impatiently.

  9. It would have to come like all the rest, and he lulled himself with the foolish hope that Ellen would come and visit him, for he was now in the right mood to receive her.

  10. Dreamily, through the leaves of the trees, Jinnie watched the white clouds float across the sky like flocks of sheep, and soon the peace of the surrounding world lulled her to rest.

  11. Then Jinnie sat down again, listening as the elements kept up their continuous rioting, and after a while they lulled her to rest.

  12. This has suggested a thought: I will wait here till midnight and sleep have lulled her apprehensions.

  13. It was pleasant to be lulled to sleep by the rustling of leaves (and it was consoling to know something besides us donks had to rustle), yet there we were in the boundless desert.

  14. Soon a hush fell upon the scene, and the beating rain on the canvas lulled us sweetly to sleep.

  15. As he proceeded to prove the proposition, his monotonous tone seemed to have lulled the doctor into a doze, for in a few minutes a deep, long-drawn snore announced from the closed curtains that he listened no longer.

  16. Scarcely were the sounds of mirth lulled into an apparent calm, when the door opened and the host and hostess appeared.

  17. Go to your rest, my love, lulled to sleep by the happiness which will lull me to sleep also.

  18. Gully was soon lulled to drowsiness by the warmth of the stove and varied sounds produced by the gale, and was soon dozing peacefully in his chair.

  19. What was it but the conscience of the artist in him, lulled into a fitful sleep by the applause of all America before it had ever been able quite to penetrate into the upper layers of his mind?

  20. Lulled here, the traveller for awhile admires the leathern trappings of the coach, hums a tune perhaps, and affects a dubious whistle.

  21. And then my thoughts reverted to my own remorse and trouble that had only been momentarily lulled by Mrs. Arnold's conversation.

  22. We shall bear thee far over waste and wold: Thou shalt be lulled to joyous sleep By leaves that whisper in light of gold, By murmur of fountains cool and deep.

  23. If her conversation had not been so interesting, I should certainly have been lulled to sleep.

  24. I fear the poor old gentleman has not enough sense to understand, as he often falls asleep in his chair, lulled by the sound of her sweet voice.

  25. The sweet sounds lulled her to sleep, and carefully guarded the gates of her heart, permitting no dream to knock there which could remind her of the past and its claims.

  26. Even aches are soothed for a time by a transference of attention; and why, then, should not pain be lulled by music?

  27. The voices of the quails and landrails lulled her to sleep.

  28. Pictures of death and pursuit were blotted from her mind, and straightway a sort of weakness seized her, but a sweet one; slumber began to close her eyelids; the horses went slowly, the movement lulled her.

  29. And Sebastian, crashing homewards along silent unwinding roads, was conscious of a beating excitement, totally unlike his lulled lotus-dream of the past summer nights.

  30. If she could hold him as though he were a child, his head in the crook of her arm, if she could soothe those restless quick-moving limbs of his to a lulled content.

  31. The school sings "Santa Lucia" and "Children of the Heavenly King," and baby is lulled to sleep.

  32. The bust that had won both stood in the hall crowned with laurel--an Italian peasant woman, with sweet, gentle face, in which there lingered the memories of the patient eyes that had lulled the child to sleep in the old days in the alley.

  33. She had lain down to quiet it and had been lulled to sleep with it herself.

  34. The storm, waking the water crevices of the mountains into a noisy chorus, had lulled the hunted man into an untroubled sleep.

  35. Every time the conversation lulled and Kate looked out into the night, it seemed as if they were drawing closer and closer to the stars, the dark desert still spreading in every direction and the black mountain ridges continually receding.

  36. He lulled and soothed her in his arms, as if she had been a weeping child and he her mother; and then they sat down on the settle together, and when she was more composed they began to talk.

  37. The loud, monotonous murmur of the advancing and receding waters lulled him into dreaminess; the sunny look of everything tinged his day-dreams with hope.

  38. Sylvia heard the sound of the passionate rush and rebound of many waters, like the shock of mighty guns, whenever the other sound of the blustering gusty wind was lulled for an instant.

  39. I was at first indeed lulled in a certain degree to security upon the verge of the precipice.

  40. Mr. Falkland was sometimes seen climbing among the rocks, reclining motionless for hours together upon the edge of a precipice, or lulled into a kind of nameless lethargy of despair by the dashing of the torrents.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lulled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.