At length, having gone some distance, they heard a faint cooey in reply to theirs.
The jingling of bells round the necks of oxen, the cooey of the black fellow .
Just to camp within a cooey of the Shanty for the night.
Footnote]: "Cooey is the aboriginal mode of calling out to any person at a distance, whether visible or not, in the forest.
I made him cooey to them, they answered the call, and in a short time appeared on the opposite bank.
I then made Piper cooey to him whereupon he became silent and I heard him no more, the natives of that country being, as Piper expressed it "still very wild.
We continued to cooey frequently, and the two men were ordered to look on the ground for a horse's track.
After an hour's riding the moon rose, and at length our cooeywas answered.
About 11 o'clock a long, loud cooey from the hill of tombs announced that the natives had already overtaken us; but we were under arms immediately and prepared for defence.
As we approached this spot, and while I was reconnoitring the bank for the purpose of marking out the camp, I came suddenly upon a party of natives, one of whom giving a short cooey first made me aware of the circumstance.
A long-continued cooey was at length heard at a distance, apparently the signal of our arrival, and from the confused sounds which followed, and smoke ascending in various places, it was evident that a numerous tribe was awaiting us.
We heard a cooey when we were within a mile of the place, and guessed it was a fellow on the watch.
One day I had been out on horseback, to look for a couple of bullocks which had strayed away; and was on my way back when, ahead of me, I heard the cooey of the blacks.
It was getting toward midnight when he returned, tocooey under the boy's window.
Just as we expected that they would make their final rush, a loud cooey was heard, and I caught the sound of the trampling of horses' feet.
Again I cooeyed, and this time I heard my friends cooey in return.
We gave a cooey to let those at the station know of our approach, and in another moment old Bob came hurrying out to meet us.
After going on some way, I again heard the shout followed by a cooey which I was sure, however, was not uttered by him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cooey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
