intone
verb (used with object)
to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.
were 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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The warden said this with no joy, as if he were intoning a death sentence.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
They were intoning what they called “the resonant frequency of the universe.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
And the thousands of cries, endlessly repeated across the days and nights, were intoning in rhythmic chant the terrible onslaught which this earth had witnessed and from which it still felt tragic shudderings.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
While he watched it seemed to the Englishman that voices on the hills were intoning the first verses of Genesis.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Priests were intoning a prayer to the god of water, who lived in the moon, to descend with vengeance upon the god of fire.
From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little
