intone
verb (used with object)
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
had intoned
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past perfectof intone.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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"Blessed is he that expecteth nothing," she had intoned at a pre-summit press conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping 286 to 48.
From Time Magazine Archive
Singing through the slightly opened window, they had intoned: "Unto Thee, Lord, we call: restore a free Fatherland to us all."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirteen delegations had intoned their votes before Harriman passed the 10 mark.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pater Bonifácius had intoned the opening orisons of the Litany: "Kyrie eleison!"
From A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
