intone
in tohn
- v utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- v recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
- v speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone
- When a David Duke truck pulls into the lot, the men in the band intone "white power" into their mikes.
- There the swells would sip martinis, intone the odd witticism or inanity and occasionally commit some headline indiscretion.
- The son of an admiral, Morrison got a master's degree from UCLA before beginning to intone his long, theatrical poems to dark, eerie, thundering rock.