intonate

Solomon said in a singsong, the way people intonate when they are not quite convinced of what they are saying.

The most successful sequences are the ones that find new ways of illustrating the meaning of a poem besides lingering on the face of the performer uttering purposefully syncopated and painstakingly intonated lines.

The people never wearied of singing them, and in very many places the Gospel was introduced by the triumphant power of the Lutheran hymns intonated by pious church members.

They have this way they intonate their words.

Those who didn't faint contributed variously intonated screams to the general unrest.