Sentence examples for crooned by from inspiring English sources

One of Ariel's numbers conjuring magic is Nick Drake's haunting "Cello Song," beautifully crooned by Mr. Harries.

I'm not sure it works in the fight scene, but full marks for choosing "Cheek to Cheek", as crooned by Glasgow's terrifying pre-punk hero Alex Harvey.

Wearing what looks like a straitjacket, a contortionist moves in a highly unsettling way to a recording of "Crazy", crooned by Patsy Cline.

That old, half-forgotten musical, with its Jerry Herman lyrics crooned by, among others, Louis Armstrong, is also among Wall-E's mementos of, well, us.

It's Only a Paper Moon, crooned by Blanche, is heard when she falls apart as a fractured, slightly off-key whistle.

These are crooned by the four men in Spanish (with brief, unobtrusive spoken English translations in between) with dulcet tones and brimming eyes.

"Earrrrth Aaaangel, Earrrrth Aaaangel, will you be mine?" Mr. Duncan crooned, backed by close harmony vocals and a strong beat.

By Ogden Nash The New Yorker, September 20 , 1930 P. 24Many people would rather travel from Dover to Calais Than be tunefully crooned to by Rudy Vallee.

I had thought my adventure was over at that point, that being crooned to by a Falklands vet would be the high point.

Music from a Ponchielli winds-and-piano piece in B flat offered a parade of forgotten mid-19th-century arias, crooned largely by a treble-range E-flat clarinet and set to chirping accompaniments.

Ultimate comfort blankets from the universal Brahms Lullaby (here crooned creamily by Dean Martin), through classics like All the Pretty Little Horses to modern Randy Newman soundtracks, to Roald Dahl, all agree that the stock way to arrange a bedtime coo is the celesta atop a warm blanket of strings.