intonated

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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

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

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 Just, Gustav