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intoned

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verb

past tense of intone
as in chanted
to utter in musical or drawn out tones "The day is begun," the narrator intoned

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Recent Examples of intoned
Verb
Religious Jews interpret Talmudic teachings in the context of the rabbi who intoned them. Nadav Ziv, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intoned
Verb
  • Numerous supporters gathered behind the north goal and chanted, sang, danced, waved flags and banged drums for the better part of the match’s 90 minutes.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • There have been anti-China rallies in downtown Seoul in recent months, where protesters chanted racist slurs and made unsubstantiated claims of Chinese inference in South Korean politics.
    Se Eun Gong, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • With louche tailoring and cool confidence, there is undoubtedly a sang-froid air about Armani that seems to transcend time and place.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As Penrose sung the chorus, a pair of assistants took on the task of splashing her with paint and confetti – all without skipping a beat.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • No photograph could catch the smell drifting from the nearby military barracks and Indian camps; capture the murmured swirl of French, English, Arapaho, and Lakota; or let a viewer feel the colliding anxieties and expectations that hung heavy over negotiations like this.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His wraparound, tight-quarters assist on a Keshad Johnson dunk in the second half breathed fire into the lungs of the home crowd.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • Moviegoers' comic enjoyment was so prominent that at one point, a foul-mouthed viewer yelled for everyone to shut up.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of the slow, masked killers people were used to, Freddy Krueger was a quick-witted, foul-mouthed, charismatic villain who could kill people in their dreams, oftentimes dragging them down into his nightmarish boiler room before finishing them off.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Intoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intoned. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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