COOin a sentence
- He called his boss, Kevin Bolger, the hospital's chief operating officer.† (source)
- Chief operating officer, yeah.† (source)
- The chief operating officer of the Australian branch of DelaneyMinker peered out the window.† (source)
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- I nodded and she passed it to Lauren, who smiled and leaned down into the crib to coo at Luke.† (source)
- What a coo-coo I've been for not letting them in when I needed them most.† (source)
- Maybe she had a heart attack, or maybe she was showing a house to some weirdo and …. that's really out in coo-coo land …. but those things happen.† (source)
- It was like I was in coo-coo land, I was just lying there sleeping like a baby, and I had this real funny feeling on my chest, kind of soft and warm and semi-scary and weirdish.† (source)
- "Coo, you're a sharp one.† (source)
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"I can already coo like a dove," she told herself.
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coo = abbreviation for Chief Operating Officer
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Roy heard a short high-pitched coo-coo.
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coo = an animal sound
- They coo.† (source)
- "Oh Jake, this apartment is perfect for us, just perfect," Grace Wexler argued in a whining coo.† (source)
- And when she finally let him go back to sleep, she had to stop and coo at the bird Garrett had scared out, and then she started singing.† (source)
- "Why don't I slip out and get into something more spectacular?" he would coo; each time, my grandmother and Owen would roar with approval, and Liberace would return to his piano, having changed his sequins for feathers.† (source)
- I guess they had been in here coo many times.† (source)
- A coo?† (source)
- Not if I left some money under the chicken coo?† (source)
- A small cluster of older ladies clutching pocketbooks, their hair carefully coiffed, probably on a shopping expedition from some province or suburb, smile and coo when he tinkles the opening of "Moonlight Serenade."† (source)
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- She wouldn't know how to prepare her bath either, putting lettuce leaves in the water to make sure she slept peacefully at night; she wouldn't know how to dress her and kiss her and hug her and coo to her like Tita did.† (source)
- Coo-hoo-lin.† (source)
- "Cootchie-coo," said Rita.† (source)
- Everything that comes of morning undoes itself before nightfall: rooster walks back into forest, fires die down, birds coo-coo-coo, sun sinks away, sky bleeds, passes out, goes dark, nothing exists.† (source)
- He coo and coo at her like she a baby.† (source)
- But once Sethe had seen the scar, the tip of which Denver had been looking at whenever Beloved undressed--the little curved shadow of a smile in the kootchy-kootchy-coo place under her chin--once Sethe saw it, fingered it and closed her eyes for a long time, the two of them cut Denver out of the games.† (source)
- The women coo and flutter.† (source)
- I heard a surprised coo—the cry of a pigeon—and a newly made lizard fell out of the sky at my feet.† (source)
- And up in the nurs'ry An abs-urd Litt-le Bird Is popping out to say— She looked at Estha and Rahel, waiting for them to say "Coo-coo.† (source)
- It emits a dying wail—coo-crrrrww—that every time brings Bleecker trotting in from some hideaway, eyes wild, all business, his tail a bottle-brush as he tilts his head toward the feathers and mewls.† (source)
- Patrick was unable to pronounce the L sound, and when women would coo over him, as they often did, he would put his fists on his hips, stick out his lip, and say, "Dos yadies are yaughing at me."† (source)
- Three decades later he had advanced to CEO and COO of the company.† (source)
- Did I coo into their baby faces?† (source)
- Mommy's thirsty coo.'† (source)
- " 'She took me to her parlor, and coo-oo-ooled me with her fan' "-I can hear the whack as he slaps his bare belly-"† (source)
- JOHNSON (All is a coo, an emphatic coo) Aw—ain't that lovely.† (source)
- Mike led us out of the room, leaving Lizzie to coo over the pineapples and oranges.† (source)
- He waited for the bird to coo in agreement, but of course, there was no response from the bird at all.† (source)
- Morena would materialize at the entry of my cube and coo at me in a bizarre way, "Hello, babeeeeee!"† (source)
- "Pretty baby," he said again, but it was closer to a coo this time.† (source)
- He's the COO?"† (source)
- They all knew Ashley, fellow employee, and stopped to coo and make a fuss over her and her dress.† (source)
- Even Hunter seems to coo along.† (source)
- Then I heard the coo-coo of a pigeon and the fluttering of wings.† (source)
- Then I thought I heard a pigeon coo.† (source)
- "Is it…School Day?" asked the COO.† (source)
- It came, a twitter, a coo, a subdued roar that seemed trying to tell me something, give me some message.† (source)
- Coo Coo Marlin.† (source)
- In the mornings while Patsy still slept, I always made sure I woke up early to spend time with Stephen, listening to him coo, watching him suck on his fingers or crawl through the sheets all over the bed.† (source)
- Uncle Press used to surprise me all the time with great birthday gifts and helicopter rides and camping trips and-basically all the coo-lio things a kid could ever want from an amazing uncle.† (source)
- Her voice softens once more to that motherly coo.† (source)
- Mum's voice had a coo in it that she reserves for males not her husbands of whom she approves—sometimes for us.† (source)
- No sooner had I relaxed when coo-coo Cooper got the cord that held up the front of the tent in his mouth and yanked the tent down with a mighty pull.† (source)
- Coo.† (source)
- 'Coo-ee, coo-eel' sang the brain-fever bird.† (source)
- Coo-ee!" till they were hoarse and Caspian blew his horn.† (source)
- He tried whistling, and this time he got an unexpected response: Coo-coo, coo-coo. (source)
- Dad, will you tell me the story about Coo Coo?† (source)
- Got tired of hearing some girl coo about how smart the Slip Kid is for making them plant carrots.† (source)
- Then, finally, the fluttering coo of a pigeon.† (source)
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