crooning

verb

present participle of croon
as in singing
to produce low, soft musical tones with the voice croon a lullaby a singer crooning onstage

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Recent Examples of crooning The camera pans to Cody crooning while strumming his guitar throughout the video. — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026 The melody is crooning and desperate, and their harmonies intertwine in a way that is supposed to mirror their bodies. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025 His coffee shop crooning is a transparent exercise in personal rebranding. — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026 The minute-long clip, shared on June 10, shows Langley crooning the late '90s ballad while accompanying herself on piano. — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 16 June 2026 Over the radio, Bing Crosby is crooning, Bob Hope is joking, and news of the war — against Hitler, against Japan — keeps sizzling and crackling across the dial. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026 What’s more, he is seen and heard crooning more than his costar in the film Kelly Rowland, who was one third of the legendary girl group Destiny’s Child, and has had a successful solo career since. — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026 Tammy Wynette and George Jones may have gotten a D-I-V-O-R-C-E, but the crooning duo had a hard time severing ties for good. — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026 Its 105 decibels of sound were plenty loud enough to carry over rapids without distortion and did crooning bluegrass singers and DJ’s justice alike thanks to its DSP tuning capabilities. — Joe Jackson, Outside, 20 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crooning
  1. humming
  2. trilling
  3. quavering
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  • Increasingly, the crux of the debate around AI’s sustainability has been focused on data centers, which make the nebulous concept of AI very concrete with their massive, humming warehouses full of servers and huge energy requirements.
    — Sasha Luccioni, Time, 3 July 2026
  • Project Bluestem Data centers emit humming sounds from generators, fans and other equipment.
    — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
Definition of humming
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  • Rock Harbor to Daisy Farm Campground This trail almost entirely follows the coast for 7 miles, with a soundtrack of lapping waves, trilling loons, and the occasional outboard motor.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026
  • In a now-viral clip, Carpenter overheard someone from the crowd trilling during her set for Weekend 1 and asked if the audience member was yodeling.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2026
Definition of trilling
Verb
  • Softly so as not to drown out the quavering notes, the congregation put words to the melody.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
  • The governor, Tim Walz, defeated for the Vice Presidency, gets on TV, his voice quavering, saying the right things, speaking the truth, and advising courage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of quavering

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