intonate

Example Sentences

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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

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 Münsterberg, Hugo

It was the singer's duty to intonate it.

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

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 Cheney, Roland Jon