How to Use intone in a Sentence

intone

verb
  • No, intoned the voice to Zidane.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • Locally, the phrase is intoned with a mix of civic rue and dark humor.
    — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Each line is intoned by one of the brothers as though an extension of their prayers.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • At the first station, prayers were intoned for those in the vehicles.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Hadid intones in voiceover as Lil Miquela comes into the frame.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The words of her book are intoned, projected, slipped into our hands on streams of ribbon.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Sanders intoned in a two-minute excerpt from Debs’ Canton speech.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • Children screeched and did cartwheels in the parking lot, and adults intoned the name of Jesus.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Standing tall at the top, the ape intoned his grating, mechanical laugh.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The family formed a circle, joined hands and bowed their heads as Joseph intoned a prayer for his son’s safety.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • And despite the intoning about profits, net insulin prices have been flat or declining for years.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Jack intoned, less convincingly this go-round behind a muffling hand.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • In this way more than a year passed since the wedding, and still nothing doing, as the neighborhood chorus intoned.
    — Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Hannity intoned near the beginning of his hour-long Fox News show.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The result is something stronger than ordinary lumber of the same kind and size, the narrator intones.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2015
  • His name is intoned in marches, printed on T-shirts, and displayed prominently in rap music videos.
    — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Inside the church, celebrants surrounded the open casket and intoned a few hymns to begin the service.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Mering travels and croons throughout the six-minute clip, intoning the song’s lilting melodies as a lamp-like cardiac organ shines out from her chest.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Poor Ryan Gosling, who is required to intone his lines with extreme soddenness, has to shoulder the brunt of the monotony.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Over the course of the 12-minute work, there are radiant brass chorales, luscious strings and a consoling melody intoned by single oboe, then a flute.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Men sat cross-legged or crouched on their knees in a semicircle around a small dais from which the chief mourner rhythmically intoned laments into the microphone.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Would-be futurists intoned that the age of skyscrapers was past, that no new iconic high-rises would shadow American cities.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Accompanied by piano, drums, bowed bass and fiddle that linger over slow chords, Dylan intones each line with somber clarity.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Madonna intones at the start of the album over an impossibly lonely ambient soundscape.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The opening moments belong to the great Ty Dolla Sign, intoning the phrase rain come down in a weary auto-tune.
    — Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
  • The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And then the public address announcer began intoning the names of the Thunder starting lineup.
    — Steve Popper, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The series is a breath of fresh air from a visual standpoint, and happily breaks the arbitrary rule that all denizens of fantasy realms must only intone in British-speak.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • As the Imam intoned verses from the Quran, a series of reverberating chimes from users’ phones suddenly cut through the recitation.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
  • Before beginning the procession around the room, the child would intone the essential Jewish prayer, the Shema.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026

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