{"loaderData":{"0":null,"0-3":[{"type":"fetchPageData/fulfilled","payload":{"_id":"home-legacy","story":{"created_at":"2023-07-04T15:14:18.526Z","published_at":"2024-05-02T04:05:00.000Z","content":{"heroModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/how-to-write-a-scary-story-tips-to-haunt-your-reader/","text":"Read more.","target":"_self"}],"article":{"name":"How to Write a Scary Story: Tips to Haunt Your Readers","content":{"topicLabel":"Writing tips"}},"imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/featured/hero/how-to-write-a-scary-story-tips-to-haunt-your-reader-20251006.png","description":"Interested in crafting the next big thriller or a spooky short story? Here are some tips to get started.","subjectLabel":"Today"}],"quizModule":[{"cta":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/learn/quizzes","text":"Go to all quizzes","target":"_self"}],"image":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-quiz.png","articleLink":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/quizzes/keep-it-short-an-abbreviations-quiz","text":"Take the full quiz.","target":"_self"}],"subjectLabel":"Quiz","wordpressSlug":"keep-it-short-an-abbreviations-quiz","questionNumber":"1"}],"xotdModule":[],"gamesModule":[{"gamesList":[{"name":"Daily Crossword","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:24:23.318Z","published_at":"2024-02-07T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141299,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/crossword/","text":"Daily Crossword","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215805,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/daily-crossword.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":""},"slug":"daily-crossword","full_slug":"games/daily-crossword","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"013f4974-3fad-4e2b-8aa2-c573ef31f263","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:55.972Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Hurdle","created_at":"2023-07-07T20:42:46.109Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":337835996,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/todays-hurdle","text":"Hurdle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215808,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/hurdle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/hurdle"},"slug":"hurdle","full_slug":"games/hurdle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-30,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3342f4e9-9403-4609-a956-7cd5eab50dc9","first_published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:55.648Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Puzzle","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:31:56.964Z","published_at":"2023-07-10T17:24:59.422Z","id":336150578,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-puzzle","text":"Word Puzzle","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215807,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-puzzle.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false}},"slug":"word-puzzle","full_slug":"games/word-puzzle","sort_by_date":null,"position":-20,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"71792320-7229-4ab6-8558-b3af16f5e557","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:43.933Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true},{"name":"Word Wipe","created_at":"2023-07-04T15:28:02.623Z","published_at":"2024-02-06T05:05:00.000Z","id":336141320,"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://play.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe","text":"Word Wipe","target":"_self"}],"image":{"id":10215806,"alt":"","name":"","focus":"","title":"","source":"","filename":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/word-wipe.png","copyright":"","fieldtype":"asset","meta_data":{},"is_external_url":false},"subscriberLink":"https://www.dictionary.com/games/word-wipe"},"slug":"word-wipe","full_slug":"games/word-wipe","sort_by_date":null,"position":-10,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140985,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"3789fc63-90b3-4407-99f4-fa263d1a3e39","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T15:32:50.947Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null,"_stopResolving":true}],"description":"Calling all cruciverbalists! Sharpen your mind with crosswords and word games, or take a brain break with your favorite classic games.","subjectLabel":"Games"}],"commonModule":[],"ribbonModule":[],"trendingModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/words-for-book-lovers/","text":"Words All Book Lovers Should Add to Their Lingo Library"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/passenger-princess/","text":"Do You Have a \"Passenger Princess\" In Your Car?"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/macro-vs-micro-economics/","text":"Macro vs. Micro: the Big (and Small) Difference"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/cool-words","text":"15 Cool Words to Add to Your Vocabulary"}]}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/french-fries-words-around-the-world/","text":"Frites, Chips, and More: French Fries Around the World"}]}}],"subjectLabel":"Trending"}],"newsletterModule":[{"title":"Salutations, logophile!","imageUrl":"https://assets.dictionary.com/home/newsletter.png","description":"Sign up to get everything a word lover could want: word origins, fun facts, and the latest language trends.","subjectLabel":"Newsletter"}],"largeRibbonModule":[],"recirculationModule":[{"articles":[{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/white-tie-vs-black-tie/","text":"White Tie vs. Black Tie: Which Is More Formal?"}],"topicLabel":"Commonly confused"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/face-in-clouds-emoji/","text":"How Are You Using the Face in Clouds Emoji 😶‍🌫️?"}],"topicLabel":"Emoji IRL"}},{"content":{"link":[{"url":"https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whycapitali/","text":"Why Do We Capitalize the Pronoun \"I\"?"}],"topicLabel":"Writing"}}],"subjectLabel":"Featured"}]},"slug":"shared-homepage","full_slug":"homepages/shared-homepage","sort_by_date":null,"position":0,"tag_list":[],"is_startpage":false,"parent_id":336140983,"meta_data":null,"group_id":"c7ed375b-9129-448c-aeec-9f52e3fef270","first_published_at":"2023-07-04T18:23:43.845Z","release_id":null,"lang":"default","path":null,"alternates":[],"default_full_slug":null,"translated_slugs":null}},"meta":{"requestId":"KzC8wjxYzM10kS2zoSPF9","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"luna/fetchExampleSentences/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"nlp":[{"id":"6731303-17","sentence":"Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.","source":{"sourceName":"Salon","publicationDate":"2025-09-13T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-09-13T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.salon.com/2025/09/13/why-i-crave-the-sourest-bite/","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Joy Saha","title":"Why am I addicted to sour foods?"},"offsets":[20,26]},{"id":"6724759-47","sentence":"Otherwise, Anderson holds her own, cooing her one-liners with the kittenish candor of Marilyn Monroe.","source":{"sourceName":"Los Angeles Times","publicationDate":"2025-07-31T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-07-31T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-07-31/naked-gun-review-liam-neeson-pamela-anderson-paul-walter-hauser-danny-huston","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Amy Nicholson","title":"Review: Liam Neeson takes aim at his rote thriller roles in the giddy, riotous “The Naked Gun”"},"offsets":[35,41]},{"id":"6704764-34","sentence":"But Gadot gets the best number in a tepid batch, a villain’s anthem that welds together a half-dozen sneering, cooing, minor-key tempo shifts.","source":{"sourceName":"Los Angeles Times","publicationDate":"2025-03-19T04:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-03-19T04:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-03-19/snow-white-review-rachel-zegler-gal-gadot-live-action-marc-webb","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Amy Nicholson","title":"Review: An uncertain 'Snow White' holds a magic mirror up to polarized times"},"offsets":[111,117]},{"id":"6700481-9","sentence":"You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.","source":{"sourceName":"BBC","publicationDate":"2025-02-19T05:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-02-19T05:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9845854nmno","abbreviation":"nlp","title":"A$AP Rocky's trial: Five things we learned"},"offsets":[20,26]},{"id":"6693675-20","sentence":"One of his favorites is the sound of cooing pigeons — pests to some, but also survivors who’ve adapted to survive on crumbs of kindness.","source":{"sourceName":"Los Angeles Times","publicationDate":"2025-01-09T05:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2025-01-09T05:00:00.000Z","url":"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-01-09/hard-truths-review-mike-leigh-marianne-jean-baptiste-michele-austin","abbreviation":"nlp","author":"Amy Nicholson","title":"Review: Duck and cover, here comes Mike Leigh's punishing 'Hard Truths'"},"offsets":[37,43]}],"tdb":[],"gbg":[]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"cooing"},"requestId":"eejHALtmDhajwhYlJ93sR","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusRelatedEntries/fulfilled","payload":{"slug":"cooing"},"meta":{"arg":"cooing","requestId":"OprtlbE6iblhDxNC294hs","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchThesaurusEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2021-05-09T15:07:01Z","headword":{"normalizedForm":"cooing","standardForm":"cooing"},"id":"6097fa95000000003800d44d","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2021-05-09T15:07:01Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"cooing","groups":["c","g","i","n","o","oo"],"numLetters":6,"reverse":"gniooc","subwordTokens":["cooing","ooing","oing","ing","ng","g"]},"normalizedLetter":"c","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"id":"6097fa95000000003800d452","ordinal":1,"shortText":"cry softly","source":"random-house","synonyms":[{"entry":{"headword":"murmur","id":"6097f70500000000bd000c16","slug":"murmur"},"similarity":100},{"entry":{"headword":"sound","id":"6097f7e800000000310094b6","slug":"sound"},"similarity":50},{"entry":{"headword":"utter","id":"6097f87c00000002b7001b76","slug":"utter"},"similarity":50},{"entry":{"headword":"woo","id":"6097f895000000035e00367d","slug":"woo"},"similarity":50}]}],"id":"6097fa95bb1f88f7c11d185e","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"verb"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"627d710000000003de004043","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.flac","mpeg":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.mp3","ogg":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.ogg","wav":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.wav"},"id":"627d710000000003de004044","ipa":{"text":"ˈku ɪŋ"},"phonetic":{"boldIndices":[0,1,2],"html":"koo-ing","text":"koo-ing"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"cooing","source":"random-house","type":"tcom"}],"type":"tcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"cooing","requestId":"1R6Xa41qysnam7dQwPIX0","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"dcomWeb/fetchDictionaryEntry/fulfilled","payload":[{"entries":[{"createDate":"2022-05-12T20:41:36Z","derivedFormSets":[{"derivedForms":[{"form":"cooingly","ordinal":1,"syllabicForm":"coo·ing·ly"}],"partOfSpeech":"adverb"}],"headword":{"normalizedForm":"cooing","standardForm":"cooing","syllabicForm":"coo·ing"},"id":"627d710000000003de0030cc","lang":"en","modifyDate":"2022-05-12T20:41:36Z","ngrams":{"allLetters":true,"forward":"cooing","groups":["c","g","i","n","o","oo"],"numLetters":6,"reverse":"gniooc","subwordTokens":["cooing","ooing","oing","ing","ng","g"]},"normalizedLetter":"c","ordinal":1,"origin":{"id":"627d710000000003de003f04","source":"dcom","text":"First recorded in 1660–70; coo ¹ ( def. ) + -ing ¹ ( def. ) for the noun senses; coo ¹ ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses","type":"origin"},"partOfSpeechBlocks":[{"definitions":[{"examples":[{"sentence":"Jim recognized the sound as the cooing of a pigeon, although some of us thought it was an owl."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0030d4","ordinal":1,"source":"dcom","text":"an act or instance of uttering or imitating the soft murmuring sound characteristic of doves."},{"examples":[{"sentence":"I’m no fan of fancy goodies—not for me the cooing over iced Halloween cupcakes topped with fondant pumpkins."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0034cd","ordinal":2,"source":"dcom","text":"the act of murmuring or talking fondly or admiringly."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0030d1","ordinal":1,"partOfSpeech":"noun"},{"definitions":[{"examples":[{"sentence":"Since February, the lake has come alive again with a few pairs of mallards and a cooing eider duck."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0030d9","ordinal":1,"source":"dcom","text":"making the sound characteristic of doves."},{"examples":[{"sentence":"Strolling on the boardwalk were cooing couples, briefcase-toting executives, and chattering children with their nannies."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0034d1","ordinal":2,"source":"dcom","text":"murmuring or talking fondly or admiringly."}],"id":"627d710000000003de0030d6","ordinal":2,"partOfSpeech":"adjective"}],"pronunciationSets":[{"id":"627d710000000003de004043","lang":"en","ordinal":1,"pronunciations":[{"audio":{"flac":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.flac","mpeg":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.mp3","ogg":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.ogg","wav":"NEW2016/cooing_010/cooing_010.wav"},"id":"627d710000000003de004044","ipa":{"text":"ˈku ɪŋ"},"phonetic":{"boldIndices":[0,1,2],"html":"koo-ing","text":"koo-ing"}}],"region":"us"}],"slug":"cooing","source":"dcom","type":"dcom"}],"type":"dcom"}],"meta":{"arg":"cooing","requestId":"T0YmUr6DagtcIX_w9k-b_","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}},{"type":"fetchSpellSuggestions/fulfilled","payload":{"data":{"lunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"cooing","slug":"cooing"},{"displayForm":"cooking","slug":"cooking"},{"displayForm":"ingoing","slug":"ingoing"},{"displayForm":"ingoing","slug":"ingoing"},{"displayForm":"ongoing","slug":"ongoing"},{"displayForm":"ongoing","slug":"ongoing"},{"displayForm":"rooinek","slug":"rooinek"},{"displayForm":"rooinek","slug":"rooinek"},{"displayForm":"undoing","slug":"undoing"},{"displayForm":"undoing","slug":"undoing"},{"displayForm":"Tourcoing","slug":"tourcoing"}],"tunaWithSlug":[{"displayForm":"cooing","slug":"cooing"},{"displayForm":"cooking","slug":"cooking"},{"displayForm":"cooling","slug":"cooling"},{"displayForm":"booing","slug":"booing"},{"displayForm":"wooing","slug":"wooing"},{"displayForm":"echoing","slug":"echoing"},{"displayForm":"forgoing","slug":"forgoing"},{"displayForm":"cookies","slug":"cookies"},{"displayForm":"ingoing","slug":"ingoing"},{"displayForm":"ongoing","slug":"ongoing"},{"displayForm":"undoing","slug":"undoing"}]}},"meta":{"arg":{"word":"cooing"},"requestId":"jP2UlzgXu5fvJxhcsT87q","requestStatus":"fulfilled"}}]},"actionData":null,"errors":null}

cooing

Example Sentences