How to use strum in a sentence

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• Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.From the entry guitar
• Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.From the entry catguts
• What was remarkable about his music wasn’t the folk-rock acoustic strum or the stoic, lonesome vocals.2024 August 4, Brad Wheeler, “Philippe Mckenzie was a trailblazing Innu folk singer and cultural catalyst”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry Innu-aimun
• Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antirock
• All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy, surprisingly powerful strumming.1993 September 3, Chris Dickinson, “Singers to watch”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry surfy
• Every morning I vocally strum on a dhizker, a word irradiated by electrical edenics.1991, Nathaniel Mackey, Hambone - Issue 9, page 99. From the entry edenics
• Clay, nor a rockerful of grandma knitting, nor a stoolful of big sister strumming " Forgotten."1929, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 96, page 436. From the entry chairful
• Tunazilla was sitting under a mango tree strumming an 'ukulele and singing with a voice like heaven itself.2019, Lehua Parker, One Boy, No Water, Makena Press, →ISBN. From the entry hammajang
• There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.2011 March 14, Ciaran Giles, “Spaniards eat up Cdn guitarist; Flamenco guitar traditionally an area dominated by men”, in Trail Times…. From the entry rasgueo
• “For me,” Stanley says, “a great pickup means you can hear each string when you strum a chord.2008 September 30, Alan di Perna, “Paul Stanley: Some Kind of Minister”, in www.guitarworld.com, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021. From the entry superunbelievable
• The fingers of her right hand were strumming an ektara.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 131. From the entry ektara
• The vihuela (silent h) is a small, guitar-like instrument strummed as much for its percussive as its melodic sound.1989 August 26, Richard Vasquez, “Women Are Spicing Up the World of Mariachi Music”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry silent h
• Droste is usually the more ethereal, with the sweeter voice and the gentler melodies; he was the one strumming an autoharp for “Lullabye,” while Mr.2007 March 9, Jon Pareles, “Three Bands on Trips That Lead to the ’60s”, in New York Times. From the entry autoharp
• It was not until entering the fourth movement when he would finally stop all strumming to interject with an interrobang: “WHERE is that voice COMING from!?”2022, Choir Korneli Leviyey, “2007”, in Traumaturgy: The Abandoned Autobiography, page 53. From the entry interrobang

Meaning of strum

1. verb To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.
2. noun The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
3. noun The act of strumming.

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Questions about strum in a sentence

How do you use strum in a sentence?

Strum is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.”

What is a short sentence with strum?

“give the banjo a little strum”

What does strum mean?

Strum means to play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.