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

There are also videos of the Argentine team chanting in the dressing room.

— Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2026
People started singing, chanting, and cheering together on the street while standing in the rain.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026