cooing

Example Sentences

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Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

McVay making faces and cooing baby talk on a video call.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Otis even gets a starring role, cooing along playfully to an improvised piano solo called Interlude II.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024

One can hear actual children in the mix, cooing gently at the beginning, then fading away as the composition grows more intense.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

I found myself cooing at and falling in love with every child that passed by.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson