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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

Hearing Nat King Cole croon about chestnuts roasting on an open fire dozens of times is one of the many reminders that fireplaces are luxuries most of us don’t have.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

Somewhere, at a great distance, she heard a small voice croon: “There, there.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Her story: Parton’s greatest contribution to the movie might have been its title—and the song she wrote for it, in which she croons about grabbing herself a “cup of ambition.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The eight-minute “Actress” is an aural trip that croons of a lazy wannabe-actress, before it climbs to rocking, triumphal heights with a soaring string section.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Now, as I ride through Koreatown, Alicia Keys croons, “Everything’s gonna be all right.”

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

The 16-year-old singer of the high school band Kim Theory croons the melancholy-tinged lyrics from “Growing Pains,” their song about adolescent angst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

“Say hello, Dixie,” he croons, “say hello to Miss Eugenia.”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

The wholesome Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes have been taught in classrooms, crooned in karaoke bars and used in U.S.-China diplomacy for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Diplomatic wheels, it seemed, were in motion, even as the lack of detail left many around the world with suspicious minds, as Elvis once crooned.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

As I crooned “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive” along with Hank Williams, I added a little yodel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

TVs across the state blared what became known as the “banjo ad,” in which a country singer crooned that Newby would bring “justice tough but fair.”

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

“No, you’re not,” she crooned just loud enough so only she and I could hear.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Over the radio, Bing Crosby is crooning, Bob Hope is joking, and news of the war — against Hitler, against Japan — keeps sizzling and crackling across the dial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

For many, the waterfront that Lebanese singer Fairouz immortalised in 1961 -- crooning about "the coast of Alexandria, coast of love" -- is no more.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

The label is fitting in part on a literal level because Gunn ends his movie on Superman’s smiling face with the song “Punkrocker,” which features Iggy Pop crooning, “I’m a punkrocker, yes I am.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

No amount of Kate Bush’s heroic crooning will save them.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

The engineer’s crooning drifted back, songs she did not recognize, debris from the north kicked up by the gale.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead