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  • verb Present participle of intone.

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Examples

  • This intoning is always a matter of crescendo and diminuendo in the intensity -- a rising and falling between plain speaking and wild chanting.

    God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Charles Buckles 1960

  • "I don't call intoning proper solemnity," said Miss Leonora.

    The Perpetual Curate 1862

  • He had introduced a kind of intoning at public meetings.

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

  • There are some things in the mode of speaking among the Friends, particularly in their public meetings, which do not strike me agreeably, and to which I think it would take me some time to become accustomed; such as a kind of intoning somewhat similar to the manner in which the church service is performed in cathedrals.

    Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • Hark! what's that? — the monks intoning in the chapel close at hand?

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • An amply endowed young woman in a spandex outfit was bent over him, slapping his cheek and breathlessly intoning, Are you alright?

    Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011

  • (Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.)

    History 2010

  • Men in dark pants, white shirts and suspenders hustle around with scripts in hand, intoning into stand-up microphones and creating their own alarming sound effects as they chronicle the fake Martian invasion.

    Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010

  • A catharsis of sorts rekindles, intoning archaic dreams

    Another View Of A Grand One WhinZa KingSlée 2011

  • Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!"

    It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen 2011

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