strum
verb (used with object)
to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
had strummed
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past perfectof strum.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He informed her that the jazz music she had strummed was simply "glorious" and that he regretted he knew very little popular stuff.
From Midnight by Cohen, Octavus Roy
Swinburne had strummed the skies with every kind of song, and Verlaine had whispered every secret of the senses there was, in the land of illusion and vaguery.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
To-night the blazing Yule-log, his mother's face—how white her hair was growing, thought Doctor Ralph with a sudden tightening of his throat—all of these memories had strummed forgotten and finer chords.
From When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story by Dalrymple, Leona
