croon

Object

• vocal: Lounge crooning vocals, like a less deranged Julian Cope.
• song: He crooned sultry love songs with heavy down beats in a manner that harkened Prince and Marvin Gaye at once.
• style: Boswell took the real risk of having them actually sing, in a crooning, semi-operatic style, to music by Mick Sands.
• ballad: And the heartless water behind, far beneath, croons a merry ballad of death.
• voice: Morrissey's voice is still that crooning, passionate voice that compells one to feel his feelings as if they were one's own.

Converse of object

hear: Cowering beneath the table, whimpering, he heard a familiar voice croon above him.

Adjective complement

vocal: Ascending then descending chords and melody opened things nicely, a crooned vocal hinting at an intimate, almost confessional relationship.

Modifying Another Word

• gently: If I want music, I will play the piano and croon gently, and dream of American bars and friends and musicians.
• softly: Nat King Cole croons softly in the background, setting the scene.
• beautifully: Achingly sad, it drops down in the middle section to reveal some beautifully crooned pure soul singing from Jill.
• now: She was sort of crooning now, and I realized that she thought she had done enough to delay and keep me.
• about: We croon about how clean and semantic the HTML is, hoping the visitor doesn't wander over to look at the CSS.

Noun used with modifier

voice: Cowering beneath the table, whimpering, he heard a familiar voice croon above him.

Followed by an intransitive particle

along: Neil had made up a CD compilation of all the hits around at this time and horrified Colin by crooning along with Glenn Campbell!