crooning
- present participle of croon.
Example Sentences
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For many, the waterfront that Lebanese singer Fairouz immortalised in 1961 -- crooning about "the coast of Alexandria, coast of love" -- is no more.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The label is fitting in part on a literal level because Gunn ends his movie on Superman’s smiling face with the song “Punkrocker,” which features Iggy Pop crooning, “I’m a punkrocker, yes I am.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
No amount of Kate Bush’s heroic crooning will save them.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
At a Moscow concert hall, Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is crooning about love and his motherland, Uzbekistan.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
He watched as the mother comforted the child by rhythmically bouncing up and down and crooning to him.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
