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Example sentences for "intone"

Lexicographically close words:
intolerance; intolerant; intollerable; intonation; intonations; intoned; intones; intoning; intorno; intoxicant
  1. Presently the sound of chanting arises, and the brethren of the yellow robe intone the prayers for the dead.

  2. In the world to come, all generations will pass before the Lord and will ask Him who should first intone the song of praise, whereupon He will reply: "In the past it was the generation of Moses that offered up to me a song of praise.

  3. When, at the passage through the Red Sea, Israel wanted to intone a song of praise, Moses did not let them do it alone, but first sang to them the song they were to sing to the Lord.

  4. It behooves Thee to work miracles for us, whereas it is our duty to intone to Thee songs of praise.

  5. They recite the ten precepts, chant the Law up and down the road, and intone a particular sermon of the Buddha, by the preaching of which he once drove away a pestilence.

  6. Brahmans of to-day so carefully intone and recite precisely as they have been handed down--even they did not pretend to know or to have seen where or whence or whither Brahman is.

  7. The ceremony concludes by alms to the priests, who in return intone the commandments and other portions of the Law in Pali.

  8. All assemble, as in the morning, and together intone the hymns.

  9. This done, they proceed to intone the morning service.

  10. Therefore in that order which he has established or which they already had, let the brethren approach to receive the kiss of peace and Communion, intone the Psalms and stand in choir.

  11. And let him intone the following verse, which shall be said three times by all in the oratory: "O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare Your praise.

  12. The boys should intone in the thin register.

  13. As a rule, when they intone on G, the G remains to the end.

  14. As if fascinated by them, no one moved from his kneeling position, or even raised his head, until the last note of the strain and its receding echoes had died away, and the choir went on to intone the "Benedictus qui venit.

  15. Ispirizade accordingly began to intone the surem, but he spun it out so long and made such a business of it, that it seemed as if he were bent on wasting time purposely.

  16. The food stuck in his throat, he said grace, returned to Shool, put on the Tallis, and started to intone tunefully the Prayer of Expiation.

  17. Did he hear him intone the Gemoreh, or perhaps sing?

  18. As the wounded King Amfortas is borne in, the assembled knights, each standing in his place, a golden cup before him, intone the Grail motive, which is taken up by the entering choruses of servitors and esquires bearing the holy relics.

  19. Trumpeters blew loud and discordant notes, nearly drowning the voices of the priests who vainly in the din tried to intone the canticles and psalms.

  20. At sight of him the populace intone the noblest of all choruses: "Awake!

  21. Then, while the orchestra plays a solemn processional based on the Bell Motive, they intone the chorus: "To the last love feast.

  22. A little music was added at times, to help the pupil intone his reading and declamation.

  23. As Rabbi Thalmann began to intone it in its monotonous repetition of praise, there arose certain black-robed figures from their places and stood with heads bowed over their prayer books.

  24. Then Rabbi Thalmann began to intone the Kaddish.

  25. And when the patriarchal rabbi began to intone the prayer for the dead Fanny threw the gallery into wild panic by rising for it--a thing that no woman is allowed to do in an orthodox Jewish church.

  26. I hope and trust in Providence that you don't intone like poor Gerald.

  27. It was under these terrible circumstances that the Perpetual Curate, with his heart throbbing and his head aching, began to intone the morning service on that Easter Sunday, ever after a day so memorable in the records of St Roque's.

  28. No composer before him had elicited from the trombones such impressive utterance as is to be found, for instance, in the first movement of the symphony in C where the trombones pianissimo intone the melody.

  29. The first theme of the second group is assigned to divided first violins, beneath which wind-instruments intone the second theme.

  30. Oh, never more for me shall winds intone With all your tops a vast antiphony, Demanding and responding in God's praise!

  31. Nor lacks there aught but that the group Break forth, intone the lamentable psalm, "Out of the deeps, Lord, have I cried to thee!

  32. An Angel by direct descent, a German by alliance, Thou didst intone the wonder-chords which made Despair a science.

  33. And in the House of the Priests the minister in charge of the ceremonial impatiently awaited the late comers, that he might intone the beautiful immemorial Psalms.

  34. Brahms permits the bassoon to intone the Fuchslied of the German students in his "Academic" overture.

  35. The pianoforte can sentimentalize like the flute, make a martial proclamation like the trumpet, intone a prayer like the churchly trombone.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chant; chirp; chorus; croon; descant; hum; hymn; intone; lilt; pipe; quaver; serenade; shake; sing; trill; troll; tweedle; twit; twitter; warble; whistle; sinner; swindler; thief; thug; traitor; transgressor; villain; wrongdoer