intonated

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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

Quite a number of words, such as the enclitics mentioned above, are not intonated at all.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

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

From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Sholto, Ralph