intone
Example Sentences
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A singer intones a haunting melody—“It’s been a long time and still we are not free.”
“It is as if the demands of his spirit were too extreme for flesh and blood,” Ms. Marcus intones.
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
“Alas, poor spud!” she had just done intoning, Hamlet-like, to the withered potato, which was now furry with mold.
From Literature
“In honor of the great orations of antiquity,” Alexander intoned.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
