cooing
Example Sentences
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Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“They do know when someone someone’s ill, right?” he said to no one before scratching Penny’s tummy and cooing, “You know I’m ill, right? I’m ill!”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025
You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
My grandfather’s mind, locked in its graveyard spiral, accelerated as it hurtled toward its destruction, and three days later he started cooing like a baby and the next he started soiling himself.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
