Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coos
Verb
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Affleck sighs and rolls her eyes.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025 -
Outside, the tide sighs against the rocks in steady conversation.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The yawning gap between data-center expenditures and the rest of the economy has caused whispers of bubble to rise to a chorus.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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There was affairs and divorces and whispers and gossip, all the stuff that makes good bands break up.—
Alan Light,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The River Coln murmurs gently here—weaving through golden buttercups and forget-me-nots, while plump ducks paddle lazily beneath canopies of willow.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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There have also been murmurs around Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and Small Business Administration chief Kelly Loeffler — but nothing more.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
1 June 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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Then decide whether inorganic materials like landscape cloth, black plastic, rocks, or rubber mulch is better than organic mulches like shredded leaves, straw, pinestraw, sawdust, or wood barks.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Oct. 2025
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Trying to comfort her dog, the owner explained the cat was not real, but the barks continued.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Busting out a box of instruments that turned the room into a riot of noise, Sheeran then encourage each student to share their unique sound into the mic, from saxophone bleats to fart sounds.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
22 Oct. 2025
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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 4 Nov. 2025.
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