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intonate

[in-toh-nayt, -tuh-] / ˈɪn toʊˌneɪt, -tə- /


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Solomon said in a singsong, the way people intonate when they are not quite convinced of what they are saying.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

They have this way they intonate their words.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010

It was the singer's duty to intonate it.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons

The motor ideas with which the speech movement has to start are cut off and the subject yields passively to the fate that he cannot intonate his voice.

From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg

Of a truth, she had sworn never to actually speak again, but now it occurred to her that perhaps she might at least intonate.

From Si'Wren of the Patriarchs by Roland Jon Cheney

The most successful sequences are the ones that find new ways of illustrating the meaning of a poem besides lingering on the face of the performer uttering purposefully syncopated and painstakingly intonated lines.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., even intonated that she’d be willing to send the House Democrats’ bill to a House/Senate conference committee.

From Fox News ● Jun. 28, 2020

Gate of Hell, its title to the contrary, admitted the Western moviegoer to a pearl-tinted paradise, a vision intonated by a highly sensitive Japanese color sense.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people never wearied of singing them, and in very many places the Gospel was introduced by the triumphant power of the Lutheran hymns intonated by pious church members.

From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Gustav Just

Another kind of water—also very matutinal in its delivery,—the "Aqua vita," is intonated by the Aquavitario, in a sharp kestrel key,—hear him!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

Here also stood the choir of young men or grown-up children, who united their voices or answered to the intonating singer.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons

It is difficult to express upon paper the difference of signification conveyed by the mode of intonating a sentence.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes




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