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
You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
One can hear actual children in the mix, cooing gently at the beginning, then fading away as the composition grows more intense.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024
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
