intone
verb (used with object)
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
was intoning
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past progressiveof intone.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As Lakers announcer Lawrence Tanter was intoning, “Seventeen,” as the Purple and Gold took the floor against their hated rivals, the Boston Celtics, I heard the late Celtics broadcaster Johnny Most also exclaim, “Seventeen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
I’m still trying to figure out why Ophelia had an eating disorder and why Polonius was intoning while sitting on a toilet in Gold’s 2017 rendition of “Hamlet.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
"A tall, dark, and handsome man will soon come into your life," he was intoning in that sepulchral voice men habitually use in their dealings with the absolute.
From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen
The truth was that Tom was intoning a sentence from Henry's prize essay on streets.
From A Great Man A Frolic by Arnold Bennett
Little wonder, therefore, that just as a member of the congregation was intoning from the central platform the blessing which closes the reading of the Law, a woman disturbed her neighbours by fainting.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
