croon
verb (used without object)
to sing or hum in a soft, soothing voice.
were crooning
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past progressiveof croon.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Not that people back then were crooning full-length songs.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
As elegant as the musicianship was, the singers’ voices were weathered with age, and they were crooning about romances from decades past.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
A middle-aged man and wife were crooning to the horses.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
They all loved it and were crooning it sweetly, but the Captain’s face went white as they sang: “Father will come to his babe in the nest.”
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
At the British Museum the pigeons were crooning among the shadows of the grimy colonnade, and the stalwart janitors looked less stalwart than usual, as though their medals were too heavy for them.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
