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

Why did he not take up his last words, "Live in peace," and intonate the blessing?

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de

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

The motor ideas with which the speech movement has to start are cut off and the subject yields passively to the fate that he cannot intonate his voice.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo