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intone::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cantillate, chant, intonate |
| Type of | sing |
| Has types | singsong |
| Derivation | intonation |
Examples of intone
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Psalmodic chants, which intone psalms, include both recitatives and free melodies.
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Pro-Fed economists monotonously intone that that is the lesson of history.
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George, to hear the grandiosely named Oecumenical Patriarch intone off key.
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The reporters then intone that the mortality rate for avian flu is more than 50 percent.
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Ritual healers would intone healing prayers banishing diseases to Metnal.
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Thou shalt intone the Gatha Ushtavaiti, reciting the salvation hail.
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Decline is never as rapid as we'd hope, Updike seems to intone.
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There is a trade-off, they intone, between liberty and security.
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Would that we could all intone our own past with such skill.
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- Tone: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"
- Chant: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer"
- Intonate: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness"
- (intoned) chantlike: uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting; "their chantlike intoned prayers"; "a singsong manner of speaking"
- To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize; To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant; as, to intone the church service; To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound
- (Intoning) chanting on a single note
- (v) : to recite in a singing voice, to talk with particular intonation
