No beef would be killed that night, no lights would shine, no guitars would strum for the dance.
Would she drink tea from the Indian Tree cups and be allowed to strum on the piano?
Angel, full of music as a bird, could strum some sort of accompaniment to any song on the piano.
From the cock a pipe, usually lead, leads to the bilge, having at its end a strainer or strum, and care must be taken that this strum does not get choked and let the condenser get hot from the exhaust steam not being condensed.
Well, I'm glad your mother was American," he declared, beginning to strum upon the piano and inviting her to a seat beside him.
When she goes back and marries some fat spaghetti it will give her something to moon about to remember how she and Johnny Byrd used to sit out and strum to the stars---- There he is now.
Speaking through his apoplectic organs, I could not understand myself: it was a mumbling hubbub, the drone of a bagpipe, and the tantalizingstrum strum of a hurdy-gurdy!
The rector could strum the bass tolerably, and his friend the lawyer could play the violin, in which however he was excelled by the clerk of the parish.
Strum it over, then, my dear; but I give you notice that I'm full up for this season.
Strum it over, like a dear, and let me hear how it goes.
So here: After your teaching, I shall sit andstrum Polkas on this piano of a Place You 'd make resound with 'Rule Britannia'!
But after having been moved by a scene from Wagner, he would strum out a gallop of Offenbach, or sing some music-hall ditty after the Ode to Joy.
Then the Signor would strum on two strings of the fiddle, smiling the while a smile that no woman should see, and Bill would waltz laboriously on his hind legs.
He carried a fiddle under his arm, but the most he could do was strum on it with his thumb.
Kinahanglang kuskúsun ug kusug ang sista kay bungul, You must strum the guitar hard because it’s dull.
These are the cause of what are called in the trade "seedy bellies," and the effect on the bacon of the female fat pig being in a state of [oe]strum when it is slaughtered.
And what are we to say to this simplest swing of folk-song that steals in naïvely to enchantingstrum of rhythm.
A fugal revel of the comic phrase with the quick strum as counter-theme ends in a new carnival,--here a dashing march, there a mad chase of strident harmonies.
The Scherzo starts in a quick three-beat strum on the chord we have pointed to as a true model trait of negro music, with the lowered leading-note.
The real battle begins almost with a lull, the mere sound of the second tune in the reeds with light strum of strings and triangle.
The appealing middle phrase is all disguised in strum as of dance.
Suddenly in a new quarter amid a quick strum of dance the main motive hurries along.
Whereupon Gabrielle blushed deeply and to hide her confusion went to the piano and began to strum "Annette and Lubin.
First an old clock, that struck twelve just as he was born, then an old piano, upon which his sisters used to strum the scales.
Whatever her station in life, she is bound to strum the piano; but in no country is a good pianoforte player more rare, or do you hear greater trash strummed in a drawing-room.
Almost every working-man has his girls taught to strum the piano.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bum; buzz; drone; pick; pluck; plunk; thrum; twang
