coo
verb (used without object)
to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves.
Example Sentences
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We are, as the wife of Stuart Murdoch — lead singer of the band Belle and Sebastian — cooingly calls it, in “fairyland.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
To Juliet, to whom every purling syllable was painfully audible, it sounded cooingly, like the voice of doves.
From The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story by Mrs. Charles Bryce
At any rate, as she talked cooingly on about her daughter, he would have found her tiresome for once but for some arresting quality in that small, distant figure.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Is it not so—reply and tenderly, cooingly, oh Dove of Galway!
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
"You may go now, boys," she said cooingly; "I'll speak to you later."
From Apron-Strings by Eleanor Gates
