Her crooning soon put the child to sleep.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : to croon to a baby. ,Popular singers began crooning in the 1930s.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to croon a child to sleep.    From Dictionary.com. 

Swell Season, best known as the crooning leads in the 2006 Irish independent film "Once.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short List] Reference

He comes across as some weird kind of crooning stalker.    From Wordnik.com.  [AI4 – Group of 9] Reference

Soon he was singing a kind of crooning chant in a dialect not known to the novice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canticle for Leibowitz]

It had a good deal of a kind of crooning whine about it, but yet was not a whine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jan A Dog and a Romance] Reference

"Ah," he said, with a kind of crooning deliberation, "that's the way they all behave -- that's what they all come for.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference

"Ah," he said, with a kind of crooning deliberation, "that's the way they all behave — that's what they all come for.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Dead Hand] Reference

Mr. VERLAINE: I don't mind crooning as a description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Helpings of Tom Verlaine] Reference

She dropped to her knees at his side, crooning to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference

Grannie was waiting up, crooning to herself over the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

I heard her brave voice with a crooning quiver like a mother's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

The sun rose and birds stopped crooning from awnings and branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Was From Minnesota] Reference

'Of course she is,' I replied; 'can you not hear her crooning to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

Likewise, this concert is sure to be an evening of crooning and swooning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking Back, Falling Ahead] Reference

 Bonnie Raitt, that goodtime girl, is crooning about love on the stereo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Houses] Reference

Imagine the crooning voice of the old Slav woman singing it to her nurse child.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference

At karaoke bars he's fond of crooning hits by the defunct heavy-metal band X Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looks Are Everything] Reference

In the background, Bonnie is crooning, “Let's give 'em something to talk about.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Houses] Reference

Elixer and rode away on his sorry looking nag, crooning something into his ample beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference

She was crooning to herself a weird little song, and rocking back and forth upon the box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Journey discovered its new frontman crooning beloved Journey covers in Manila hotel lobbies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference

KURT ELLINGFlirting With TwilightWith Elling, audaciously fast scatting meets soulful crooning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music: Quit Your Jonesing] Reference

It sounds awful, except that it's great, with hipsters like Rufus Wainwright crooning classics.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LIST] Reference

The star stood awkwardly on the runway, crooning “Come on, ladies,” into a cordless microphone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryerer] Reference

(The sound, for those who have not heard it, is extraordinary: like crooning or keening or jibber jabber.).    From Wordnik.com.  [49: E. A. Adeboye] Reference

And, ironically, even though he didn't like Frank Sinatra's crooning, Loesser himself really is a crooner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresh Air Celebrates Frank Loesser's 100th Birthday] Reference

       KURT ELLINGFlirting With Twilight With Elling, audaciously fast scatting meets soulful crooning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music: Quit Your Jonesing] Reference

Despite the Fab Four's sentimental crooning, Nagai's script opts for realistic ambiguity over happy resolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help! I Need Somebody] Reference

Less Hollywood actors mugging for the stage and more Connick crooning would suit the upcoming Broadway season well.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Sims: Broadway Needs a New Orleans Love Letter from Harry Connick Jr.] Reference

Lose that championship game and you can hear "Dandy Don" Meredith crooning, "Turn out the lights, the party's over.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About the Super Bowl] Reference

(Two current favorites are the "Sesame Street" theme song and the crooning purple dinosaur Barney -- for 24 hours straight.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

And it's fun, too: where else could you hope to encounter that trio of singing mice crooning "" Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien ''?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hog Heaven And Hell] Reference

He can party hard, dancing across a living room crooning, "All my exes live in Texas/That's why I hang my hat in Tennessee!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends For Now] Reference

"The memory's fading," he sings on "Deep Blue," a song that relies entirely on his spectral crooning to get us to the finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcade Fire's bombast gets boring on new record, 'The Suburbs'] Reference

The Dinosaur hit 3,251 miles on the odometer as we rolled into New York, with Journey crooning "Don't Stop Believin '" on the radio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teens on the Road] Reference

TOM HUIZENGA: She smokes and drinks, runs with a band of smugglers and brings men to their knees just by crooning a breathy habanera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carmen on the Couch: Analyzing Bizet's Bold Heroine] Reference