Sentence examples for strummed through from inspiring English sources

Mostly, though, the crowd remained hushed as Mr. Ashcroft, playing acoustic guitar, strummed through songs by the Verve and from his solo album.

Thus, hundreds of squealing schoolgirls packed into Irving Plaza to cheer them on as they strummed through an impressively long 14-song set.

Born in London and brought up in Devon from the age of nine, he surfed and strummed through his youth along to his parents' vast music collection of Bob Dylan, John Martyn, Jimi Hendrix and Simon and Garfunkel.

Keen to re-establish his agent-provocateur credentials, Moore read an apocalyptic love poem, Blossom, for the encore, then strummed through the facetious motorik of an old live favourite, Fri/End.

In 2009, American violinist Roger Frisch played music during surgery to stop a tremor in his arms, and in 2013 Sons of Anarchy actor Brad Carter strummed through an operation to implant a pacemaker.

Clad in a short sleeve polka dot button-down, Orville Redenbacher-esque straw hat, and full white facepaint, Cox beautifully and hypnotically strummed through his set as attentive fans listened in an eerie, silent appreciation.

The band kick off quietly, strumming through Red Shoes, a song that traces feelings of alienation in a supermarket.

Sometimes he was alone with an acoustic guitar, strumming through "Small Town" with the audience shouting along, or he was joined by Miriam Sturm on violin and Troye Kinnett on accordion.

Prompted by the hilariously inane "Please Please Mr. Kennedy," sung by Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver — who play three bearded 1961 folkies warbling and strumming through a space-race ditty — the Cannes audience started to laugh and clap.

Back in 1979 you might have chanced on Rhys Chatham blissfully strumming through a fervent rendition of his Guitar Trio at Max's Kansas City, a punk club in the Flatiron district.

And as the New Order lead singer Bernard Sumner, John Simm looks and sounds so much like the original as he strums through a spare, unplugged version of "Bizarre Love Triangle" that we could be watching a documentary of the original.