How to Use crooner in a Sentence

crooner

noun
  • This wasn’t just a rock-and-roll guy or a crooner singing songs.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The tour will be a mix of both worlds, half crooner and half cowboy.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Most thought the song was a blast and that the country crooner did a bang up job.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2019
  • The crooner was in a bind, with a bum leg and a pompadour in bad need of a trim.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • The country crooner with the deep voice has been on the go ever since.
    — Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Her tone is warm and full, like a coffee-house crooner singing a love song to a packed house.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Weary sun tenderly bid farewell to the sea, sang the crooner on the radio.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • One of them showed the country crooner playing guitar and singing to her as a child.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • My father, the crooner, is always the life of the party, the class clown.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The cool one, the sweet one, the one everyone kind of likes, and other crooners.
    — Ali Fitzgerald, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
  • Aww, that was certainly sweet of the 66-year-old crooner to say.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Berlusconi had been a cruise-ship crooner and possessed the showman’s ease on the big stage.
    — The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • At the arena show, Sinatra held the crowd in the palm of his hand, a crooner bar none.
    — John Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Fans of the happy couple will no doubt be thrilled to hear the country crooner's sweet words about his wife.
    — Tierney McAfee, Country Living, 19 July 2020
  • The set was marketed as the last from the crooner, who is now retired due to health issues.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The soul crooner spun and dipped in a sleek suit — the likeness so lifelike, even the wrinkles in his socks popped.
    — Gerrick D. Kennedy, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The crooner has since put out more than 70 albums over the course of his seven-decade career.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The talented crooner is the current face of eight brand campaigns.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • But the 10 months the crooner spent in the home were, understandably, epic.
    — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Owned by the crooner for about two decades, the Mediterranean-style house is sharply dressed in monochromatic tones.
    — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
  • Cowell was adamant that AGT addicts haven’t seen the last of the crooner.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For the Canadian crooner, the win marked many important firsts for the show.
    — Daniela Avila, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • On his journey towards healing, the crooner headed home, back to the South.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Donell Jones, a soul crooner from Chicago, co-headlines the show with Case.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 22 May 2018
  • The clip then cut to the crooner in the studio, working on the same high-energy track on guitar in the studio.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Very fitting for the flamboyant crooner!
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • At that point, Warren was mostly known as a TikTok star, not a crooner.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The crooner’s Cincinnati date in March of last year was canceled due to the pandemic.
    — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The singer’s older brother Chris Bryan, was killed in a car crash when the crooner was 19 years old.
    — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • At home, the stereo was tuned to Top 40 (thanks to her mother), and classic crooners (for her father).
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023

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