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

Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Ears like a bush baby, but that didn’t stop the girls in port from cooing over his smooth brown skin and short black curls.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee