Cooing is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cooing meaning
present participle and gerund of coo
Using Cooing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of coo
- In the example corpus, cooing often appears in combinations such as: and cooing, cooing over.
Context around Cooing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cooing
- In this selection, "cooing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, little, fans, babies, dove, sounds and woodpigeons stand out and add context to how "cooing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include babbling and cooing sounds are and had audiences cooing over him. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cooing" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and abadan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cooing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A few pushed strollers with babies cooing. (7 words)
They are innocuous and enrich our mornings with their gentle cooing. (11 words)
The babbling and cooing sounds are inspired by scenes from The Mandalorian. (12 words)
It’s no small wonder, therefore, that our little cooing dove has been pigeonholed by criminal minds to do the dirty work of transporting narcotics and other illicit substances beyond the watchful eyes of controlling agencies. (36 words)
At the same moment people were cooing over Bush’s letter, Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, announced she was resigning from the Labour front after it was reported that she had misled the public. (36 words)
Bush mixed her voice with cooing woodpigeons to repeat the phrases "A sea of honey, a sky of honey", and "You're full of beauty" throughout the piece, and uses recordings of actual birdsong throughout. (35 words)
Example sentences (10)
It’s no small wonder, therefore, that our little cooing dove has been pigeonholed by criminal minds to do the dirty work of transporting narcotics and other illicit substances beyond the watchful eyes of controlling agencies.
On this day she was cuddling her newborn, Deja, who was also cooing as Simi conducted the interview.
She left fans cooing after she posted the candid snap on her Instagram stories.
The babbling and cooing sounds are inspired by scenes from The Mandalorian.
A few pushed strollers with babies cooing.
Even before Robert Pattinson would have just about every girl in the world enchanted in he had audiences cooing over him when the hit screens 14 years ago.
At the same moment people were cooing over Bush’s letter, Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, announced she was resigning from the Labour front after it was reported that she had misled the public.
They are innocuous and enrich our mornings with their gentle cooing.
Bush mixed her voice with cooing woodpigeons to repeat the phrases "A sea of honey, a sky of honey", and "You're full of beauty" throughout the piece, and uses recordings of actual birdsong throughout.
It was also described by some as clucks, twittering and cooing, and as a series of low notes instead of actual song.
Common combinations with cooing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: