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Usage examples of strum.

His breath left him in a thunderous rush and she held the phone tight to her ear, her lips brushing the mouthpiece as she imagined his orgasm quivering through her too, through muscles already exhausted, nerves already strummed and sated.

RETURNING to his desk, the magnate sat down and began a new strumming.

Besides fatting, picking his nose, and strumming, his other passion in life was eggy-weggies and Marmite soldiers.

I sat on the porch strumming some chords of my favorite John Prine stuff.

They walked in silence, letting their collective sensorium detect the latent caressing strum of hills and gnarled, stubby trees.

The persuasive titillation of his mouth and tongue blunted her will to resist, and though she relished each blissful stroke that strummed across the gutstrings of her being, she strove desperately to gather the scattered fragments of her wits.

A small gray-furred boy, a Houdan, was strumming a banjo at one of the piers.

The idiot rode strumming his banjo, playing over and over the last two tunes he had heard, regaling the countryside alternately with the national anthems of Dixie and France.

The music grew as the musicians lining the avenues strummed their guitars and blew into their horns, and the red flags of Reec were everywhere, hanging down from apartment windows and held aloft by proud teenagers.

I realized that all the Strums were listening in to the dialogue and probably my private thoughts as well, and that I was showing reprehensible, almost buglike uncertainty.

Outspan was very embarrassed up in his bedroom trying to strum along to the Motown time.

Pointing the bottleneck of the instrument at the rolling molecular destabilizer, he strummed the strings fast and hard.

Mishka had opened the clavichord and was strumming on it with one finger.

If it ignites, we'll be strumming harps with Corey Ford and the Boxman.

Tha-tha gave the decapod equivalent of a nod: a brushlike strum of encouragement.