Meaning: The guitars played, their music spreading throughout the night air.
Choice of Words: "Guitars" are string instruments played by strumming. "Strummed" describes the motion of playing the guitar. "Filling" suggests the music's pervasiveness.
Alternative Expressions
The guitars sang their sweet melodies into the darkness.
Meaning: This sentence describes the guitars as if they are singing, and how their music fills the darkness with beauty.
Choice of Words: **Sang** is a verb that means to produce musical sounds with the voice. **Sweet melodies** are pleasant and pleasing to the ear. **Into the darkness** means that the music is filling the dark space around.
The strumming of guitars echoed through the night air.
Meaning: This sentence describes how the sound of the guitars playing can be heard throughout the night air.
Choice of Words: **Echoed** means to repeat or reverberate a sound. **Through the night air** means that the sound of the guitars is traveling through the air during the night.