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verb

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as in to sing

to produce low, soft musical tones with the voice croon a lullaby a singer crooning onstage

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Recent Examples of croon

Verb

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 His coffee shop crooning is a transparent exercise in personal rebranding. —

Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026

Noun

For 20 years, Joey Ramone’s hiccupping croon and Johnny Ramone’s relentless power chords kept on and on for 14 albums and more than 2,000 shows. —

Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 May 2026 While the entire band was a powerhouse, as lead singer Malo brought not only strong, soulful vocals that could veer between a Roy Orbison-esque baritone croon and country twang, but a genial humor that often manifested itself during the group’s concerts. —

Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for croon

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Verb

The song, which Diamond wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, laments the cooling of a romance in language as direct as the music is florid; the recording, as the story goes, came in response to a homemade edit by a radio programmer eager to hear the two stars sing together.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
First, there was the stealth appearance of a B-2 Spirit bomber, which glided like a quiet bird in flight as the national anthem, sung by 10-year-old Alexandria Arango, was winding down.

— Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2026