How To Use Crooning In A Sentence
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At the end, instead of a fat lady singing, we get a thinner but happier Watt contentedly crooning about how great it is to be alive.
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With a chill vibe and harmonious R&B crooning, it's more than a little reminiscent of Fantastic's "Players".
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The crooning stopped, replaced by the sound of the engine grumbling steadily and the road moving beneath us smoothly.
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Jill Scott opens the disc, crooning over a hip-hop bassline and vinyl scratches.
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I wouldn't have won; the egg below us broke and a moist dragon head appeared, crooning piteously as the dragonet shook itself free of the shell.
Artichoke
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This time next week, 150 singers will be on a stage crooning a song that has taken a year to write.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a miracle she'd heard the phone at all, what with the noise of the guests and the sound of Sinatra crooning old hits.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Indeed, singing seems to be something new to him - or perhaps it is just that his voice is not right for the tunes he is crooning.
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Anyone playing the tape would hear Michael Jackson crooning in the exact digital quality they would hear on a purchased Thriller tape.
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Midway through the charming, inebriated song, in which two "swellegant" party pals swap banter, dish on guests and form a dipsomaniacal camaraderie, Crosby croons to Sinatra with his distinctive "ba ba ba boom" and Sinatra jokes, "Don't dig that kind of crooning, chum.
Kim Morgan: Christmas With Crosby, Bing
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She stroked the surface of the shell, crooning nonsense words to the tiny baby inside, encouraging it to come into the world.
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You're not just singing, you're crooning and your voice is all mellow and smooth and tastes like honey.
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After crooning a couple of verses of that particular song, Charlie heard a loud thump resonate inside the room.
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In isolation, the stifling homogeny of the album doesn't come across as strongly, and the crooning doesn't get as tiresome.
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She was crooning to her baby.
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The heavens, with their mighty burden of stars, remained clear and tranquil, -- the raging voice of ocean was gradually sinking into a gentle crooning song of sweet content, -- and within the little cottage complete silence reigned, unbroken save for the dash of the stream outside, rushing down through the "coombe" to the sea.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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He told us jokes and would sing popular songs in a pleasant crooning voice.
Seminary Boy
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He would much rather have been crooning in a smoky bar.
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He begins at the piano, back to the audience, crooning through some svelte middle-of-the-road coffee table number as only Bryan can.
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It fluttered its wings and made crooning noises.
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They were coming the long way round past the brambled wall and he heard Marcella's mothering talk, her crooning seriousness.
Cal
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But it wasn't pitch-perfect crooning that made her such an icon.
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Who Will Save Your Soul" features Jewel folkily crooning, growling like a blueswoman (albeit a white blueswoman from Alaska), and cooing like a six-year-old, all within the 12 seconds or so of the insufferable chorus.
Tony Sachs and Sal Nunziato: If Music Be The Food Of Love, These Songs Are Fried Pork Rinds
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He would much rather have been crooning in a smoky bar.
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As far as I was concerned he was just some crazy nut who spent his days crooning up in the attic where he was changed.
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I spoke to him, crooning soft, comforting words.
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For their second set, they were in novelty mode, tackling Abba, Madness, a-ha and the Carpenters with impressive crooning from Paul Sartin on Close to You, and they ended with melodeon-backed dance tunes, with furious vocals and fiddle-work from Jon Boden on New York Girls.
Bellowhead/Baghdaddies – review
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Five Bedouin musicians knelt on a Persian carpet, playing rebabs, traditional stringed instruments, and crooning traditional Omani songs in the gathering darkness.
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I flopped onto my back and started crooning in my off key voice.
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One could still watch black-and-white films from the liberal pre-Nasser era on television and find ancient taxi drivers nostalgically crooning songs by Umm Kulthum or Abdel Halim Hafez.
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That's 2,520 minutes of that friggin 'flute and Celine Dion crooning about her heart going on and on and on.
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A cuff from the master and a sharp word had then compelled him to permit their caresses, though he growled and growled under their tiny hands, and in the growl there was no crooning note.
The God's Domain
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Crooning romantic ballads and keeping the beat with faster numbers, he made his mark with his debut album.
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The title "singer-songwriter" brings to mind a multitude of horrors: James Blunt cooing about beauty, James Morrison crooning about "something", Jack Johnson wooing ladies with banana pancakes.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review
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And he ended up providing the musical backdrop to the lovebirds' romantic dinner on the island by crooning away as they sat down to eat.
The Sun
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Despite his exemplary crooning ability and his propensity for loungey arrangements, his was never an easy career to sum up.
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Evenings she's on stage, either crooning jazz classics or acting.
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He gets a job crooning schmaltz in California nightclubs.
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The album comes to a perfect end with female vocals crooning about a spinning top slowly coming to a stop.
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The golden koa, the king of woods," Mercedes was crooning over the instrument.
CHAPTER III
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The karaoke-mad couple love nothing better than getting up and crooning hit songs.
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This was a god, a tangible, real, three-dimensioned god, who went about and ruled his world in a loin-cloth and on two bare legs, and who loved him with crooning noises in throat and mouth and with two wide-spread arms that folded him in.
CHAPTER IX
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And he ended up providing the musical backdrop to the lovebirds' romantic dinner on the island by crooning away as they sat down to eat.
The Sun
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This time next week, 150 singers will be on a stage crooning a song that has taken a year to write.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told us jokes and would sing popular songs in a pleasant crooning voice.
Seminary Boy
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His wife had snatched the child out of his arms one day as he sat on the doorstep crooning to it a song such as the mothers sing to babies in his mountains.
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The man was crooning soft words of encouragement to his wife.
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Fang was growling responsively, the crooning note of the growl more pronounced than ever.
The Love-Master
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There's no auto-tune crooning or overbearing electronica background music.
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No amateur karaoke here, only recording contract voices crooning the classics accompanied by a really talented and funny pianist.
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‘We learn to communicate as babies through crooning and singing from our mothers,’ he says.
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This movie's main thrust is really nothing more than bareness interspersed with double entendres, pseudo witty banter, personal attacks, comic quips, and horribly off-key crooning.
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And a cassette deck crooning the blues and Bach.
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Now and then she would add her own low tones to our untrained vocalizing, crooning or cantillating the tune as if she were musing aloud.
Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly
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her crooning soon put the child to sleep
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For a few seconds he lay still, and then he began to squirm along the ground towards us, a few inches at a time, stopping every now and again to bleat and gurgle with that curious, crooning note which he appeared to think would pacificate the object of his overtures.
The Wonder
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Kenneth Jackson's crooning struck a wrong note with police who arrested him for allegedly disturbing the peace.
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I move among the aisles and walkways, which are a scented, winking, shimmering, crooning riot of Christmas.
