intonate
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Solomon said in a singsong, the way people intonate when they are not quite convinced of what they are saying.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
They have this way they intonate their words.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
"Nevertheless," observed Darby, with an air of ill-dissembled condescension, "if it isn't umbrageous to your honor, I 'll intonate something in the way of an ode or a canticle."
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
I could sing a French drinking song, taught me by the sub-prior Frere Jacques, and intonate a "Gloria in Excelsis" with a true nasal twang.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 488, May 7, 1831 by Various
Of a truth, she had sworn never to actually speak again, but now it occurred to her that perhaps she might at least intonate.
From Si'Wren of the Patriarchs by Cheney, Roland Jon
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.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., even intonated that she’d be willing to send the House Democrats’ bill to a House/Senate conference committee.
From Fox News ● Jun. 28, 2020
Gate of Hell, its title to the contrary, admitted the Western moviegoer to a pearl-tinted paradise, a vision intonated by a highly sensitive Japanese color sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Just, Gustav
Those who didn't faint contributed variously intonated screams to the general unrest.
From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Sholto, Ralph
It is difficult to express upon paper the difference of signification conveyed by the mode of intonating a sentence.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
Here also stood the choir of young men or grown-up children, who united their voices or answered to the intonating singer.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de
