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
Then she patted him on her shoulder, and tried to rock him to sleep, singing, patting him on the back cooingly when the howl of the wind startled him out of momentary slumber.
From The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris
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
She squatted there, cooingly, like a child exhausted with its evening games.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
"Hello, you good little cat!" he hailed, cooingly.
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune
