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词汇 croon
释义 croon
verb[ I or T ]
uk /kruːn/ us /kruːn/
to sing or talk in a sweet, low voice full of emotion柔声低唱;吟唱;低语
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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Ways of talking
Examples from literature

I'm moving onwards—gently onwards, crooned Edward Henry to himself. 
In the sunny room upstairs Betty sat in a low rocker, crooning away to a restless bundle in her arms. 
She caught him to her breast in her strong young arms, crooned to him, and kissed his matted head. 
The boy hugged it in his arms, as he might a baby, and crooned over it. 
The old women crooned their mystic tuneless dirges. 

croon | American Dictionary


croon
verb[ I/T ]
us/krun/
to sing or talk in a low, gentle, musical voice:
[ I ]He held his baby in his arms and crooned softly to her.

Examples of croon


croon
As a taped musician crooned a tune about love and the beauties of nature, the puppet swayed and gesticulated with realistic grace.
The one woman had her baby in her arms, was crooning to it and was looking sublimely happy.
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What might otherwise be an atttractive crooning voice appears ridiculous.
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He certainly commented on that crooning in somewhat caustic terms.
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The waves moaned a rhythmic sound and the pines crooned their love song.
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He is best known for his smooth, crooning vocals and romantic ballads.
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Here he is torn between accepting the sweet croons of the woman and turning his back on her.
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However, they spend about half their screen time crooning to each other, or dancing on the beach.
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Penniman was blessed with a phenomenal voice able to generate croons, wails, and screams unprecedented in popular music.
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The music was often created with a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled, hummed, recited, or chanted.
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Unremarkable lyrics are delivered with a sultry croon, a hands-in-the-air belt, or a sweet whisper.
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She can no longer coo or softly croon nor can she perform her trademark gravity-defying vocal runs.
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He may want to croon, rather than just sing the words.
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The change from spectacularly violent soliloquies on his debut to crooning soul on his second effort caught some reviewers by surprise, though not all unhappily.
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Our project is not to croon about starry-eyed love and teenage heartbreak.
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