As a taped musician crooned a tune about love and the beauties of nature, the puppet swayed and gesticulated with realistic grace.
The waves moaned a rhythmic sound and the pines crooned their love song.
Up to this time, high notes in the male parts in the theatre had been crooned falsetto by performers who were more actors than singers.
The music was often created with a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled, hummed, recited, or chanted.
She suckled him and crooned at him in the usual manner.
