intone

• Unless the paper asked for special credit--"the Beacon-Light is reporting in today's editions"--AP could rewrite it and put it out on the broadcast wire, which allowed some sonorous-voiced anchor to intone: "Channel 9 has just learned And it's not a lie," Tess said as she explained all this to Tyner at lunch the next day. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
• Her best friend Sylvia would hold her palm to hers, then, feeling the backs of the fingers, one her own, one Heath's, she'd intone: ;This is what dead people feel like, ; and the two of them would squeal in horrific delight This is what dead people feel like, ; Heath said. —  one
• I certainly don't intone, "Ding-dong," every time I hear grammar gaffes (although I confess that among some people, the effort required to refrain from doing so makes me feel like a child who has tried one too many times to win the who-can-hold-his-breath-the-longest contest; but I refrain, gentle readers; I refrain). —  Mental multivitamin
• More than once, during my three year stint, I heard the sometimes crotchety Mr. Taylor, a brilliant former Boston trial lawyer, intone, with sometimes lavish flair to law students in the Pappas Library trying to concentrate on writing their Briefs for the Homer Albers Moots Court Competition: —  CounterPunch
• I would rather enjoy hearing Mr. Greenspan intone, as he bends to settle his wattles on the chopping block, "It is a far, far better world I go to than I created for you mugs!" —  The New York Observer -

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