Verb (used with object) : to lull a child by singing.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : furious activity that finally lulled.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a lull in a storm. ,the lull of falling waters. ,The drug had put him in a lull.    From Dictionary.com. 

Maybe it's from the rushing river noise that's a constant companion in the lower valley -- a kind of lulling sonic shower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyee - Home] Reference

And hearing those sweet lulling sounds in succession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Profession and Other Poems] Reference

The food, the heat, were lulling her weary senses into oblivion again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference

The palms swayed in lulling rhythms and the sea sang instead of roaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beast of Space] Reference

Already the heat seemed less oppressive, the outside sounds more lulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

The lulling of the wind gave the waves a chance to gather force and height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

           A man rocks his arms as if lulling an infant to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in the Life of a Public Transit Mime] Reference

"Guru protected us from the Negative Forces," he said in a rich, lulling voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference

ROBERTSON: And if the government doesn't hold, the lulling killings won't either.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007] Reference

She had the same grace in every motion, the same lulling music in her sweet voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

Doing so runs the risk of lulling investors into a false sense of security, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors Misled By Brokers Masquerading As Fiduciaries] Reference

You hear the lulling sound and see the bright gleam of water in almost every square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

Gradually she forgot, an aching pain in her body lulling the aching pain of her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

That which has a soothing and lulling effect on one, may have an opposite effect on another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference

Nightly she nestles on his pillow, lulling him to sleep with the sound of her motorized purr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liane Kupferberg Carter: Dizzy Girl] Reference

  Like a security blanket, his hand blocked out sight and sound, eventually lulling him to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orbit] Reference

His discourse was also full of extravagant compliments, I suppose for the purpose of lulling me to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference

The traffic was light and the cab zoomed along at a smooth, fast clip, lulling the boys into a fitful doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolt on Venus] Reference

Baby woke just as I was putting him in his cot, and I had some little trouble in lulling him to sleep again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference

"The willow leaves with a soft cheek upon the lulling tide, Forgot the lifting winds" -- What does this mean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

He could hear only the murmur of the sea, a lulling croon of sound to make one sleep deep, perhaps dreamlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

The air was soft and warm and the noises of the swamp stole to the tired lad's ears with a gentle lulling sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

Preston watched it musingly as the stream bore them onward: the rushing of the water almost lulling him to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference

He certainly could not be expected to finish his homework with only the lazy zeroes and nines lulling on the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes] Reference

Mrs. Garnett was with him now, and had had a "great deal of trouble in lulling him off to sleep, the pretty dear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference

The wind lulling somewhat during the night, all hands bailed the water, which, at this time, was six feet fore and aft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

The upper current of the book did not disturb the under current of your own thoughts, perhaps aided by the lulling music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

By some unknown means and dexterous contrivances Mr.C. afterward confessed that he still obtained his usual lulling potions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

So easy to relax, to drop into the soft, lulling swing of this world in which they had found no fault, no danger, no irritant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

A sensation of relief and lulling repose would be more reasonably expected, especially after so stormy a career as that of Louis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

           The girl had pictured the ocean inPuerto Ricoas blue and lulling, softly spiraling as the sound inside a seashell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bomba] Reference

The origin of these may be ascribed to the use of lullabies and cradle-songs, as a means of soothing infants, and lulling them to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

This dark art, which consists in surprising, fascinating, lulling, and annihilating the will, has been investigated by me in this volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Treasurys drove down bond yields in the West, lulling the Federal Reserve into a belief in the last decade that it did not need to tighten.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Real Monetary Problem] Reference