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

The shrill wailing voice of one of them suddenly reached my ears; I listened; she was intoning a dirge.

From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance

He was intoning in a deep, powerful voice, declaring he would now reveal who he was.

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

The chorus was intoning a grand polonaise, to the strains of which a glittering train of splendidly-attired couples was marching around the magnificent ball-room of the Berlin Opera-House.

From The Eichhofs A Romance by Reichenbach, Moritz von