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intone
Example Sentences
He’s not any more interesting when intoning wispily New Age-y threats such as “if dreams disappear, then so will humanity.”
Every other time I’ve flown in and out of Hong Kong, the airport hums with thousands of travelers, children scampering across the polished floors, announcements intoned in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Were this sci-fi, a ship’s commander might intone, Set the controls for the center of soul.
Narrated by an intoning Jeff Daniels, “Inside the President’s War Room” certainly captures the chaos and confusion in the hours after the first plane hit North Tower, as various agencies scramble to figure out the scope of the attacks.
He has intoned his political moves with these same anti-establishment, unbeholden notes.
You know: I am to intone that these pundits think of Obama as an “uppity Negro.”
He shook his head knowingly, as if to intone the word ‘New York,’ were to intone a universal spirit of ‘anything goes’.
All four poets intone the strain, "Ye rocks and trees, guard the memory of our love."
If a student is unable to distinguish a correct intonation, his voice will not intone correctly.
It seemed quite out of keeping with his homely manner and crumpled surplice that this particular reader should intone.
Brahms permits the bassoon to intone the Fuchslied of the German students in his "Academic" overture.
Oh, never more for me shall winds intone With all your tops a vast antiphony, Demanding and responding in God's praise!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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