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 Talley, Thomas Washington
"Nevertheless," observed Darby, with an air of ill-dissembled condescension, "if it isn't umbrageous to your honor, I 'll intonate something in the way of an ode or a canticle."
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
It was the singer's duty to intonate it.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de
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
To teach a person to read prose well, even in his own language, is difficult, partly because he has seldom heard prose well read, though he is constantly hearing prose around him, intonated, but unrhythmical.
From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen
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
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 Lunettes, Henry
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 Soissons, C. S. de
