intonate

Example Sentences

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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

"Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and "sponses."

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington

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

It was the singer's duty to intonate it.

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