strummer
- a word derived from strum.
Example Sentences
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The boy admits that it is, sending mom into a fit in which she calls banjo-playing “a pollution of the blood, like leprosy,” inherited in this case from Preston’s long-gone father, a habitual strummer.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
On his latest album, 2016’s gentle “Ape in Pink Marble,” the singer and strummer sounds happily liberated from the pressure to serve as a mascot for some idea of modern psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
On the nine-minute Cat Stevens strummer “Jackson Park Express”, Al relates one of the great love stories of our time.
From Time ● Jul. 17, 2014
He is now hot property for playing someone who isn't; the strummer with soul but no sales, the man who wasn't Bob Dylan.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
You say you do not want Nais to be a mere piano strummer; then I advise you to let this Bricheteau teach her.
From The Deputy of Arcis by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott