Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coos
Verb
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Everyone rejoices as the earl raises the Stewart flag, but then whispers in superstitious fear when the finial falls off the top of the flagpole.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
26 Sep. 2025 -
To convey alterations in tone, volume and emotion, a variable typeface is deployed, showing louder voices in a larger font and whispers in smaller text as well as different display options for pitch, non-speech sounds and music.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The menu circles the room to appreciative murmurs.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the past, doctors were probably better at listening to heart murmurs, or at feeling the liver.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So the grunts up front are succeeding, but the running backs are failing?—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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Stryker grunts, wanting this to never end.—
Ted Katauskas,
Outside,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His rapturous barks bounce from wall to wall around the granite basin.—
Ted Katauskas,
Outside,
23 Sep. 2025
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Aaron Spencer was jolted awake by the frantic barks of his daughter’s chihuahua.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Coos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coos. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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