intone

Those are the first words of the military Oath of Enlistment—the words that new members of the military, with right hands raised, intone as they join the service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

“The answer is always yes,” she’d intone when I’d call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

The actors intone and belt out slogans from the 19th-century text while Nackt and a drummer accompany them with a wild, mostly electronic score.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

Akbar ceased performing the obligatory five prayers that Muslims must intone every day and began to worship “divine light.”

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

See how smart she was, she seems to intone as she compares the picture to my father.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

“With God’s help, Camp Mystic is emerging from this storm and moving forward,” a narrator intones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

"Holiday let, second home, second home, holiday let, second home, holiday let," she intones.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

Nevertheless: “Once more you drown one of your own in the inky depths of democracy,” Cumming intones after Funches poignantly exits.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

“You will never hear my song again,” Payakan intones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

"It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks," intones the mayor.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

"It's going to be he and I going to November," Bianco intoned at a recent televised debate, nodding towards Hilton.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

"Carrageenan, riboflavin, monosodium glutamate and 20 others that I can’t pronounce," he said, as one of the "MAHA moms" gravely intoned, "that stuff's really bad."

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

He was joined on stage by the song's producer, Mustard, who clutched a football while sporting the world's baggiest jeans - before Lamar pointed an imaginary remote control at the camera and intoned, "Game Over".

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025

“Tough business, really tough,” he intoned on his way out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

“The past was a very brutal place,” he intoned solemnly.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Pundits who failed to predict the operation in the first place gravely stroked their chins before intoning that the Venezuelan adventure must inevitably fail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

If You're Glad I'll Be Frank imagined the speaking clock as a real woman speaking live, her internal monologue utterly at odds with the deadening repetitiveness of endlessly intoning "at the third stroke..."

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

“Bastards” features Kristofferson’s voice at the end, intoning the line, and is the reason for his co-writing credit, given with permission from his widow.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2025

This weekend’s “S.N.L.” broadcast, hosted by Michael B. Jordan and featuring the musical guest Lil Baby, began with a dramatic voice-over intoning, “Criminals beware. There’s a new sheriff in town, and he means business.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

The intoning went on, its bulk bloating and bloating so that Turner thought the very ceiling might be pushed up.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt