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• "Aww, shucky ducky quack-quack," Imani crooned, turning to exchange a high-five with me.2003 August 1, Suzette D. Harrison, When Perfect Ain't Possible, Washington, DC: BET Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 90. From the entry shucky ducky
• Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.1993, Suzanne Weyn, Nefazia Visits the Palace, The Trumpet Club, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry mermother
• “Is a prettysome name, is Wachanga,” he croons.2013, Walter Wangerin, The Third Book of the Dun Cow. From the entry prettysome
• “He's so cuuute,” I'd hear them croon.1995, Gabrielle Bauer, Tokyo, My Everest: A Canadian Woman in Japan, page 181. From the entry cuuute
• His heart sank at the vision on the veranda: Syed Omar, in newspaper shirt, making a spectacular entrance, crooning throatily.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 487. From the entry throatily
• “I'll call you Manxie,” she crooned.2006, Andrea Spalding, Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak, page 93. From the entry Manxie
• Still, my favorite moments are the quiet ones, like when Henry, the tell-me-about-the-rabbits-George deviate, croons his balladic confession, "I did a thing."1989 July 21, Anthony Adler, “Game of Love”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry balladic
• "Wazzer madder liddle man?" she crooned.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 75. From the entry myall
• Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry fey
• Crooning softly, she then climbed up my chest, leaving a line of fried-eggy footprints up my bathrobe, before settling down to lean contentedly against my ear.2014, Martin Windrow, “Departure”, in The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 299. From the entry fried-eggy
• The formal economy recovered growthwise with a whopping 7 percent, and although a trade deficit opened in June, the neoliberal choir crooned that all was well.2002, Donald Clark Hodges, Daniel Ross Gandy, Ross Gandy, Mexico, the end of the revolution. From the entry growthwise
• Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.1950 September 25, “Music: Out of the Corner”, in Time. From the entry high-spirited
• He would croon over it the name of the man while gently rattling his ‘devil bones,’ thus calling up the evil spirit that follows these particular charmed bones.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 177. From the entry doctor
• There lay the Ghost, bow on to the beach, her splintered bowsprit projecting over the sand, her tangled spars rubbing against her side to the lift of the crooning waves.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry bowsprit

Meaning of croon

1. verb To hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.
2. verb To soothe (a person or an animal) by singing softly.
3. verb To hum or sing, or to speak, softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing a popular song in a low, mellow voice.

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How do you use croon in a sentence?

Croon is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He was crooning a song.”

What is a short sentence with croon?

“He was crooning a song.”

What does croon mean?

Croon means to hum or sing (a song or tune), or to speak (words), softly in a low pitch or in a sentimental manner; specifically, to sing (a popular song) in a low, mellow voice.