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How to use intoning in a sentence

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The movement opens with a distant choir intoning the Te Deum chant against the ambient sounds of the night.
Her nuns, by their own admission, weren't very good at singing, with their plainsong and intoning more than a little out of tune!
I try to read as deadpan as possible, like an academic intoning a hallowed text.
Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
Another child in similar garb appeared behind her striking a different pose before intoning his own little chant.
His poems chant the place-names of his own corner of Monaghan as if intoning sacred words.
His Orestes is a confused, grandstanding jock, intoning his lines with stentorian plangency.
The source of this parallel intoning of liturgical melody may be traced to the natural range of the human voice.
I came in during the Kyrie and played the end of it, and, when the priest had finished intoning the Gloria, I played a cadenza.
Dry-mouthed and intoning our personal mantras and prayers, we made a final dash for the relative safety of the militiamen's quarters.
Anyone who could get away with intoning it to an audience must be some kind of storytelling genius.
But it's not difficult to see why politicians intoning about the opportunities and challenges of globalisation are often met with cynicism.
Brief laudatory video clips were shown on the screen behind the stage, the voiceover intoning brief biographies of the two officials and their curriculum vitae.
When the body is at a right-angle, straighten up the chest slowly, intoning the vowels in accordance with the methods indicated above, as wished.
Five centuries later, a polite group of elderly right-to-lifers from New Jersey stride down Constitution Avenue quietly intoning the Hail Mary.
It begins arrestingly with the woodwinds intoning chorale-like chords interspersed with a muscular theme from the massed violins.
Perhaps it would be like a person's usual voice being taken over by a telling voice, sitting round a campfire intoning long poems thousands of years ago.
Television ads for Mitt Romney show earnest youngsters scornfully intoning the 2008 slogans they once found so inspiring.
The opening music, a moaning sax and male voice intoning a sound that resembles the word mamma, sets a tone that would make the spectator think otherwise.
Every hour, the anthem is played, followed by Orthodox priests intoning prayers and beseeching God not to forsake Ukraine.
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It was a dirge, which he was intoning as he bent over the cookstove.
The voice in the dark began intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it.
Something in her voice made Miss Bartlett repeat her question, intoning it more vigorously.
When I met him he was returning from a pilgrimage, and I heard him intoning the prayer of sunset.
Class begins with students intoning vowel sounds in stillness from the depths of the pelvis.
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