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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.
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