How to Use intone in a Sentence

intone

verb

• At the first station, prayers were intoned for those in the vehicles.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Locally, the phrase is intoned with a mix of civic rue and dark humor.
  — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
• Children screeched and did cartwheels in the parking lot, and adults intoned the name of Jesus.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2017
• Hadid intones in voiceover as Lil Miquela comes into the frame.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2019
• Sanders intoned in a two-minute excerpt from Debs’ Canton speech.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• Claire intones at one point, and it’s advice worth weighing.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Poor Ryan Gosling, who is required to intone his lines with extreme soddenness, has to shoulder the brunt of the monotony.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
• The words of her book are intoned, projected, slipped into our hands on streams of ribbon.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The opening moments belong to the great Ty Dolla Sign, intoning the phrase rain come down in a weary auto-tune.
  — Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• The oldest son, Tony Santiago, 20, was intoning a Hail Mary for the others to respond to when the phone rang.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• Over the course of the 12-minute work, there are radiant brass chorales, luscious strings and a consoling melody intoned by single oboe, then a flute.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• Hannity intoned near the beginning of his hour-long Fox News show.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
• Steve Bannon intones to a bewildered crowd at a $5,500 per plate GOP fundraiser.
  — Alex Siquig, GQ, 27 June 2017
• The result is something stronger than ordinary lumber of the same kind and size, the narrator intones.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2015
• At the entrance, a chorus of soft voices intones more than 150 names: Fortune Justice.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Standing tall at the top, the ape intoned his grating, mechanical laugh.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
• Inside the church, celebrants surrounded the open casket and intoned a few hymns to begin the service.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• And despite the intoning about profits, net insulin prices have been flat or declining for years.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• His name is intoned in marches, printed on T-shirts, and displayed prominently in rap music videos.
  — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
• President Gerald Ford intones over the opening montage of a busted-up and burning city.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
• The series is a breath of fresh air from a visual standpoint, and happily breaks the arbitrary rule that all denizens of fantasy realms must only intone in British-speak.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• Men sat cross-legged or crouched on their knees in a semicircle around a small dais from which the chief mourner rhythmically intoned laments into the microphone.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• Its glossy, pleasant sponginess brings to mind ankimo, the steamed monkfish liver dish prized at sushi bars, though of course the flavor of moin moin, seasoned with garlic and red pepper, intones the land rather than the sea.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• Would-be futurists intoned that the age of skyscrapers was past, that no new iconic high-rises would shadow American cities.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• And then the public address announcer began intoning the names of the Thunder starting lineup.
  — Steve Popper, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• Jack intoned, less convincingly this go-round behind a muffling hand.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• Accompanied by piano, drums, bowed bass and fiddle that linger over slow chords, Dylan intones each line with somber clarity.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
• As the narrator intones about the evil intentions of Russia’s foreign enemies, fragments of Repin’s painting flash across the screen.
  — Noah Sneider, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Sequences of chanting show a different way to deal with bleak facts: quietly intoning things that happened as part of history.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Madonna intones at the start of the album over an impossibly lonely ambient soundscape.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018

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