croon
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Kuo would croon standards like “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Later, he switches up the lyrics to “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” to croon, “Do you gaze at your forehead and wish you had hair?”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Del Rey’s feathery croon was totally wrong for the song, which calls for an unembarrassed quality that’s not part of her whole deal.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025
The woman took his palm, spat on it—he flinched, but she hung on to it— rubbed it with her thumb, and began to croon.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing croon
"The People Could Fly," Vocabulary from the folk tale
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"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
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