Examples of intone in a Sentence

“Coming soon to a theater near you,” the announcer intoned. “The day is begun,” the narrator intoned

Recent Examples on the Web For a cue where the little immigrant mouse Fievel first lays eyes on New York harbor, composer James Horner had the choir intone the famous Emma Lazarus poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty. — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021 Collier ended his Blue Note show with an impromptu choral exercise, conducting different sections of the crowd to hum and intone an improvisational tune. — New York Times, 16 July 2021 Here, Meacham the historian would intone, is how Trump resembles Richard Nixon or Andrew Johnson. — Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021 Reality says that another title there would necessitate flying in Al Michaels to intone, courtside, about believing in miracles. — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021 At the first station, prayers were intoned for those in the vehicles. — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020 Wandering the auditorium and stage in a gold bodysuit, the sad, funny figure of Hinrichs, who is billed as co-director, intones his laconic and disjointed soliloquy with consummate theatricality (and often without a microphone). — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020 Accompanied by piano, drums, bowed bass and fiddle that linger over slow chords, Dylan intones each line with somber clarity. — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020 Would-be futurists intoned that the age of skyscrapers was past, that no new iconic high-rises would shadow American cities. — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Mar. 2020 See More

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