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Example sentences for "croon"

Lexicographically close words:
crookedness; crooking; crookit; crooks; crool; crooned; crooning; croons; crop; crope
  1. Let the froddering crooner cry, And the braddled sapster sing, For never and never again, Will the tottering beechlings play, For bratticed wrackers are singing aloud, And the throngers croon in May!

  2. Nevertheless, Weedon Scott's ear and sympathy were fine enough to catch the new note all but drowned in the fierceness--the note that was the faintest hint of a croon of content and that none but he could hear.

  3. No caress of theirs could put the love-croon into his throat, and, try as they would, they could never persuade him into snuggling against them.

  4. She mused silently, while the little girl with the bare legs continued to croon to her doll with a kind of chant: "Dors, mon enfant, dors.

  5. How far, since the croon of her lullaby song I have wandered from mother and home!

  6. With croon of the cradle-song, Rest we there in the Father's arms where the little ones belong!

  7. A mermaid spied his glistening limbs: her croon Enticed him down; her cold arms choked him soon.

  8. Till this glad moment thou hast lived in dreams, Nursed in a fable, catechised to croon The empty science of a sun and moon That with their dubious beams Light the huge dusky stage of all that seems.

  9. She lay awake to croon that to herself, though she denied that she was in love with this eccentric waster.

  10. There was a look in his eyes that pulled at the mother-spirit in me and made my spirit croon a song over him and forgive him for the sake of his boyhood all the sins he had ever committed.

  11. For a time she stared intently at the sleeper, then, seeing that Nial, who had crawled to her side, would not look at her but sat blinking at the flame, she began to croon a song.

  12. The whispering water, the scarce audible susurrus of faintly stirred leaves overhead, the singing of the gnats, the low incessant croon of the cushats, these were all the sounds to hear.

  13. Joyfully the crickets croon Under shady oak at noon; Beetle, on his mission bent, Tarries in that cooling tent.

  14. Here we coom at oor toon-end, A pint o' yal an' a croon to spend.

  15. She moved from the shaft of light, and began to croon rather than to sing, softly and dreamily, bits of old songs and ballads.

  16. Margit would croon over them, but Rozsi, with a sober "Many tanks!

  17. She did not even look round when he came in, but continued to croon out the words, conscious of him just behind her shoulder in the dark.

  18. He called him the "Croon Prince" because the black crosses painted on his wings were of a more elaborate design than was usual.

  19. Outside there was a laugh and the strange croon of the girl.

  20. The music was quite lost here, and Persis hummed the tune herself; seemed to croon it into his very heart.

  21. He put out the light, flung up the curtain and the window, and a soft breeze moving from the ocean up the bay seemed to pause like a serenader and croon her name.

  22. The sun had set, and the night-winds were beginning to croon among the rocks.

  23. Lie near me in dim forests where the croon Of wood-doves sounds and moss-banked water flows, Or musing late till the midsummer moon Breaks through some ruined abbey's empty rose.

  24. They die by the dying Moon, Behind the moaning sallows; The weak winds creak and croon Above them in the shallows; But we care not a jot for the floundering lot!

  25. Tune of the croon of the frogs of the fen .

  26. At the mention of something to eat little Hugh sharpened his croon of pain into a yell.

  27. Christian boy—half a croon a week—and his chance o' the drawer.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "croon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anthem; ballad; blues; bravura; canticle; chant; chirp; chorus; coloratura; croon; descant; dirge; ditty; hum; humming; hymn; intonation; intone; lay; lied; lilt; pipe; quaver; scat; serenade; shake; sing; singing; song; trill; troll; tweedle; twit; twitter; vocalization; warble; warbling; whistle; yodel