Lullaby in a sentence

In the first (“Lullaby”) we encounter death singing a lullaby to a restless child, only to discover that it is a final lullaby, before the child is taken from his mother forever.

But since someone must care for the child and sing the lullaby to her, the lullaby has two valences: There is the expressive aspect, the part addressed to the child, but there is also the part left unsung.

After reading storybooks and getting tucked into bed, the kids listen to creature sounds—a lullaby that ushers them off to sleep.

Even the game’s theme crashes into the listener’s ears with an odd blend of intense madness and disturbingly comforting tones like a hate-fueled lullaby.

Firfield Avenue first appeared on screens to the tune of Paloma Faith’s Lullaby alongside other key UK light up locations, including Sheffield Town Hall and Newcastle’s Tyne Bridge and Gateshead’s Millennium Bridge.

For $3500 I expect Tim Cook to hand deliver it to my house and cook me a 3 course dinner before singing me a lullaby and putting me to sleep.

Jenny Ward, chief executive of The Lullaby Trust, said: "Co-sleeping needs to be discussed with all families.

Mr Sage was told about the alarm by the Lullaby Trust which, following Mason’s death, supported the couple, along with the charity 2wish.

Sarah thought it was sweet when Xander confessed that he sang Victoria a Scottish lullaby.

Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour lends his commanding vocal presence to “Kambengwo,” and Israeli-Yemenite singer Ravid Kahalani of Yemen Blues adds pure, yearning tones to “Kafaroo” that raise goose bumps in the song’s gentle, lullaby-like setting.

Uttered above a cradle of lullaby strings (and often nowadays from among a sea of blood-red poinsettias), the message excerpted from the Book of Isaiah, rings bitter this holiday season.

The gentle sound of the bay in my ears was like a lullaby.

This rhythm for the first half of the film is fittingly reminiscent of a lullaby, lulling us into her fantasies and allowing us to believe she is truly meeting a boy named Marc through her dreams, despite the adults of the film dismissing her.

A lullaby, more than other forms of music, implies a specific performer and a specific audience.

A lullaby sung by wolves with duct tape and polaroids.

Autumn Sky Wolfe, Autistic Singer, asks: What is the Best Lullaby for a Child’s Bedtime or Naptime?

Featuring classics like "Lovesong," "Lullaby," Fascination Street" and "Pictures of You," the song cycle earned rave reviews and cemented the gloom-rockers a permanent place in the canon of the classic rock stratosphere.

From Middle English “to lull,” the archetypical lullaby is sung gently by a mother or caretaker to a child, with the intent to soothe the infant, to placate her, to rock her to sleep.

In the short clip sighted on his Instagram page, the entrepreneur can be seen standing and cradling his son while singing a lullaby.

Musically, it unfolds in three “suites” of sorts, opening like a bluesy ballad version of the Cocteau Twins, before slipping into a haunted, Lynchian lullaby, and then ascending to a final 90 seconds of soaring, widescreen dramatics.