intonate
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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
"Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and "sponses."
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
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
It was the singer's duty to intonate it.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
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
Quite a number of words, such as the enclitics mentioned above, are not intonated at all.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
Thus ended the contest between the hermit's sons, and a firm and happy union was consummated between Odjibwa, or him of the primitive or intonated voice, and the Red Swan.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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
