Thesaurus results for INTONING

intoning

verb

present participle of intone

as in chanting

to utter in musical or drawn out tones "The day is begun," the narrator intoned

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Recent Examples of intoning When reading Blake in a Harlem apartment in 1948, Ginsberg was struck with a vision of the Romantic poet, intoning his own verse in his own voice. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026

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chanting

Verb

Protesters were seen lining the streets, some chanting, some holding Mexican flags.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
Sheik and Sater were practicing Buddhists who met while chanting.

— Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026