intone

Example Sentences

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Those are the first words of the military Oath of Enlistment—the words that new members of the military, with right hands raised, intone as they join the service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Akbar ceased performing the obligatory five prayers that Muslims must intone every day and began to worship “divine light.”

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

For the spiritual “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” Tines broke off to intone like a preacher an incident that had happened the night before as he left the park.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2022

Every year, the same droll history class on the first day of school — the Belarusian flag is red and green, the president is Lukashenko, they would intone.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

He’s always making excuses—“She didn’t mean nothing by it,” “She’s yanking your chain”—when Dina does things like intone “the Tribe has spoken” when Molly expresses an opinion.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline