intone
Example Sentences
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Those are the first words of the military Oath of Enlistment—the words that new members of the military, with right hands raised, intone as they join the service.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
“Why is Black discourse always about precipitation,” they intone, “While ignoring the sweet scent of petrichor after rain.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023
Akbar ceased performing the obligatory five prayers that Muslims must intone every day and began to worship “divine light.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
When I was growing up, my father — always eager to instruct his backward son — would regularly intone the phrase, “I shall pass this way but once.”
From Washington Post • May 25, 2022
“My boy,” he said, and then closed his eyes and began to intone a prayer or a psalm.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
