intoning

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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intoning
chanting
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  • After rounding the bases in the seventh, Volpe came out of the dugout for a curtain call to salute fans who were chanting his name again.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • As the ovation stretched into its sixth minute, the audience began chanting for director Lance Oppenheim and singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, who makes her acting debut in the film.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Intoning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intoning. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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