Thesaurus / crooning
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How to use crooning in a sentence
She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.
THE TREASURE TRAILMARAH ELLIS RYANThey sat there in the dark room for a long time, the girl rubbing Bumper's head and back and crooning gently to him.
BUMPER, THE WHITE RABBITGEORGE ETHELBERT WALSHTwas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCANOut on the plains the fourth guard were drowsily crooning the lullaby about the bull that "came down the hillside, long time ago."
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHINI rolled about in the dry leaves, playing with them and making crooning, rasping noises in my throat.
BEFORE ADAMJACK LONDONIt ran at the foot of the long, low hillside and could be heard crooning and gurgling under the leafy murmur of the forest.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARDSome curious twinge, half fearful, half regretful, drove her to peer through the leaves and to listen for his crooning song.
WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELLShe smiled and went on crooning to him, half singing, half sighing that beguiling little melody of tenderness and entreaty.
THE PIONEERSKATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARDEthan walked up and down till the early bed hour, listening to the rain and to the sound of An' Jerusha's crooning.
THE OPEN QUESTIONELIZABETH ROBINSWasis was only the baby, who sat on the floor sucking a piece of maple-sugar and crooning a little song to himself.
THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSLEWIS SPENCEWORDS RELATED TO CROONING
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