He wanted his coat, somehow, and fell to strumming the table top.
Luke, strumming lowly over the strings of his guitar.
At that moment came musical sounds from another room near by--the sounds of somebody strumming on a guitar.
Of course, it is not to be expected that I could do more than write some nonsense--my equivalent to the strumming of the scales.
There was a certain savageness in his tone, and he went on strumming the motive on the panes.
I, who had been piping and strumming with the rest, suddenly rushed out of the throng, and thrusting my masterpiece in their faces, told them that it was music.
The crew squatted in a circle, and one after the other sprang up and performed a wild, mad dance while their companions kept time by clapping their hands or strumming upon their big earthenware tom-toms.
The facetious cousin was strumming in the next room, trying over a Venetian song which the naval captain had taught her.
Raban, he began strumming Yankee-doodle on the piano, standing as he played, and putting in a quantity of pretty modulations.
Joyously I turn into the wineshop where with strumming of tambourines and staccato cackle of castanets they are welcoming the new year, and I look in the eyes of the woman; (are they your wide eyes O Eros?
From it he tenderly took out a violin, and after much strumming and tuning up he seated himself upon a chair in the middle of the room and struck up the lively air of "The MacDonalds' Reel.
Well, this jolly, excellent companion, who was continually strumming the vihuela, my dear Loyal Heart, is simply a traitor who sold all our secrets to the enemy.
Certainly--a jolly, excellent companion, who was continually strumming the vihuela.
I also skipped about the floor, strum-strumming at the same time, instructing them in the most lively dances of the whites, in which the feet must be as nimble as the player's fingers.
The following day was the sixth of my absence from Rima, and one of intense anxiety to me, a feeling which I endeavoured to hide by playing with the children, fighting our old comic stick fights, and by strumming noisily on the guitar.
It will be a great comfort to me not to hear Mamie scraping away at her violin in the evenings, or Letty strumming at scales.
It would have ended so had I not chanced to pass by your door that afternoon and hear you strumming on the piano.
And even when she does, is strummingon the piano going to help her?
Here there were little cities as completely isolated though they were parts of another planet, where the "other" people worked and played, and promenaded to the strumming of guitars.
Throughout the town the strumming of guitars, the voices of children, and the blare of the brass band was heard, and the next morning Jack-pudding danced on the corner to the infinite amusement of the crowd.
He stayed much in his own room, which became a sort of lounging spot where the air was always blue with smoke and a mandolin or guitar was strumming a low refrain or a group near the fireplace was noisy with the hazards of the national game.
When Betty handed Eleanor the note she read it through unconcernedly, unconcernedly tore it into bits as she talked, and spent the entire evening, apparently, in perfect contentment and utter idleness, strumming softly on her guitar.
Don Cornelio, carelessly seated on a stool in the porch of the house, was strumming his guitar, singing, as was his wont, his inevitable romance of King Rodrigo.
He contented himself with strumming a melancholy air on his guitar: you know that is his resource in embarrassing circumstances.
Some scamp persisted in strumming the most melancholy airs on the guitar, that would have frightened the cats themselves, and kept me awake all night Deuce take the musician and his silly instrument!
At first he lived up above entirely, reading a good deal, and strumming upon an old harp which he had bought at a sale, saying when in a bitter humour that he might have to get his living by it in the streets some day.
On the sea breeze was heard the strumming of a few belated guitars.
After dinner, the fellows sat out on the porch, strumming mandolins and singing.
He worried through the long Saturday, making futile attacks on the work prescribed for Monday, strumming in an aimless way on his banjo, and finally writing his mother a letter between the lines of which she at once read malaria.
After the banquet the court repaired to the dancing-hall, where already the musicians were strumming upon their instruments, so that everyone's feet began to move rhythmically.
The middle window of the bungalow was open and he could distinctly hear his wife, Anna Filippovna, laying the table for supper; in the yard close to the gate Yermolay, the porter, was plaintively strumming on the balalaika.
The young man, his companion, is still half reclining and hardly audibly strumming on the accordion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strumming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
