croon

Example Sentences

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At first no one notices them—everyone is distracted by the bounce house, frisbee tossing, and the country singer crooning about the good ol’ USA.

From Literature

"You have not been eating," he crooned to the Dragon, as if he were talking to Star.

From Literature

“What a good little baby,” Mom crooned, pressing more formula into his mouth.

From Literature

"Hold still, ho-o-old still," crooned Herbert Thatcher to the squirming mass of brown and yellow fur in his hands.

From Literature

The romantic element of Sondheim’s score is best captured in the gorgeous singing of Chris Hunter’s Anthony Hope, whose crooning of “Johanna” provokes an epidemic of goosebumps throughout La Mirada Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times