coo

Example Sentences

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If at all possible, you should live in a place where you don't have to constantly be looking over your shoulder in fear while you coo at the baby.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024

They coo and fuss over the infant, swap feeding and nappy-changing duties, and take turns to stay with him so one of them can get some sleep.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2023

"My princess," she would coo to me, brushing my hair away from my tears.

From Salon • May 13, 2023

Ann-Margret has always spoken in a voice that falls somewhere between a purr and a coo.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2023

I know how to coo and cluck at a laying hen so she won’t peck at your hands when you go to take her still-warm eggs away.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy