What is "strummed"

Usage examples of "strummed".

And enwrapped in the soft gloaming shadows down among the trees Beau fell adoze in his makeshift packsaddle, while Tipperton strummed his lute.

Anna took a deep breath and strummed the strings, then tightened the bottom tuning peg, and restrummed.

She strummed the flame song, humming the notes as she did and concentrating on the words.

A chord, then two paired chords, strummed on that unseen gigantic harp, shivered the silver fog covering the Falche, a fog of sorcery, steam, and rock dust.

His lips were pressed into a thin line as he strummed a chord to test the strings.

Sheledon softly strummed his guitar to check its tuning and Lozell ran an arpeggio on his standing harp.

The harp gave one last dissonant chord as the wind of its descent strummed the strings.

She strummed lightly, head bent to catch the sweet mellow quality, smiling as she listened to the soft notes die away.

Anna didn't wait, but strummed the lutar and began the spell, hoping, somehow, that it would work.

And he fingered a chord and strummed the argent strands, and concordant tones sounded pure and silver.

And so Beau drowsed and Tip strummed softly, mastering notes and chords.

Gurney crept up behind him, held out his baliset, and strummed a jangling chord that startled the man to full wakefulness.

He fidgeted, accidentally strummed a single chord, then nervously thumbed another one.

Many of them were new to him, and several were so alien in design and construction he could not tell by looking at them whether they were intended to be strummed, tootled, or beaten.

He lightly strummed the suar’s strings in the hope the music might stimulate some humorous reminiscence, but none was forthcoming.