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

Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

"You have to think a lot before having a baby," Valentina Dottor admits when we meet on Fregona's main square, her 10-month-old daughter Diletta cooing in a pushchair.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

Waking up to the sounds of Princess Peach giggling or Zelda softly cooing “wake up,” is, yes, odd, but I appreciate the burst of frivolity before I start worrying about my to-do list.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

She approached a flock that was about a hundred birds strong, all cooing and strutting across the cobblestones as if they owned the place.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown