was intoning
- past progressive of intone.
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 Dongen, H. R. van
It was a dirge, which he was intoning as he bent over the cookstove.
From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Rossetti made a pen-and-ink sketch of the Laureate while he was intoning.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by Phelps, William Lyon
