intone

Example Sentences

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If You're Glad I'll Be Frank imagined the speaking clock as a real woman speaking live, her internal monologue utterly at odds with the deadening repetitiveness of endlessly intoning "at the third stroke..."

From BBC

“He’s just not ready to be president,” the ad narrator intones.

From New York Times

His interpretation is a far cry from the melancholy old magician who intones Shakespeare’s poetry with the grave solemnity of John Gielgud, who put his indelible stamp on the role.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump later intoned to the crowd that he was their "warrior," their "justice," their "retribution."

From Salon

“In my heart you sing clear and bright/It makes me feel like things will be all right,” she intones, convincing both herself and anyone listening.

From New York Times