All 3 Uses
intone
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!†
Chpt 3.
- When Rene made the mistake of looking over his shoulder and intoning, "This goes on that," Ira leaped off the bunk and took a swing at him.†
Chpt 5. *
- "We don't have to single out an event in his life," the pastor intoned, as a Marine honor guard stood by the flag-draped casket, lodged awkwardly between the first five rows of wooden pews.†
Chpt 19.
Definitions:
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(1)
(intone) to speak; or (less commonly) to sing or play musicThe exact meaning of intone can depend upon its context. It can mean:
- to say something somberly (slowly and seriously without much change in pitch)
- to speak or sing in a careful manner as with rising and falling pitch
- to say in a particular tone or pitch
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)