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Meanings of lulling in English

Calming.

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Usage of lulling in English
1
The music raised up the heart and it was wonderfully lulling, too.
The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
2
The lulling hymns were like the very vertigo that bore them away.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3
3
The distant lawns were lulling to sleep the breezes that kissed them.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
4
Fauvel, and of lulling any suspicions which might arise in her breast.
File No. 113
5
They have the property of lulling their victims to almost instant slumber.
The Dream Doctor
6
The food, the heat, were lulling her weary senses into oblivion again.
The Man Thou Gavest
7
It must have had a lulling effect, for I dropped off again.
Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures
8
Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness.
The Beast of Space
9
Instead of the noises lulling her, as before, this cacophony raised gooseflesh.
Frontier courtship
10
The melody was lulling; it had a refrain of delicious sentiment.
The Town Traveller
11
But its plodding bureaucratic nature had a kind of lulling effect.
Seveneves
12
Something was moving through him, warm and cool, lulling and dangerous.
A Darker Shade of Magic
13
And of the lulling quality of his verse take this as a sample:-
Among My Books. Second Series
14
Chase and Co. are lulling us into a state of complacency.
Reuters
15
Eve found herself swaying to the lulling cadence of his words.
Eve of darkness
16
It seemed to have an almost lulling effect on the crocodile.
Sacrifice
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Lulling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common