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• 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
• s  uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting
  their chantlike intoned prayers

• The same throat a few days later intoned the death notice of the conference.
• As evidence, the voice-over intoned, "Pepsi stands for 'pay each penny to save Israel.
• It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.

• tone
• chant
• intone
• intonate
• cantillate
• chantlike
• singsong

News & Articles

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• Monday, July 1, 2013 8:00 am
  “And now for something completely different,” intoned the announcer on the 1970s BBC hit comedy show, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
  July 1, 2013 - The Pilot-Independent
• I wonder if they'll ask us back next year
  'Wake up,' intoned Natalie's voice, intruding upon my dreams.
  June 30, 2013 - Lancaster Eagle-Gazette

Quotes

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• Christopher Hitchens in The Australian
  Referring to the 2001 instruction, Hitchens wrote: "The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden....
• Lincoln Chafee in Providence Journal
  Democratic senators, Chafee writes, "went down to the meetings at the White House and the Pentagon and came back to the chamber ready to salute. With wrinkled brows they gravely intoned that Saddam Hussein must be stopped. Stopped from what? They...
• Franz Liszt in LimaOhio.com
  As an explanation of the piece's title, Liszt stated in a preface: "What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?"