Thesaurus results for INTONING

intoning

verb

Definition of intoning next

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 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

Messi stood in the midfield looking equally confused and irritated with his hands on his hips, looking over at the North stands, where La Familia was chanting.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
The young, mostly male group did their chanting under the eye of Israeli police, who had cordoned off parts of the plaza for journalists to cover the event safely.

— Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026