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Example sentences for "intoned"

Lexicographically close words:
intolerant; intollerable; intonation; intonations; intone; intones; intoning; intorno; intoxicant; intoxicants
  1. When the muezzin intoned the fifth namazat, towards midnight, Mahmoud dismissed the dervish.

  2. Wickedness must be rebuked of the Lord," intoned Mrs. Stoddard.

  3. Mrs. Stoddard's voice intoned reverently, while she looked at Agatha with her sincere eyes.

  4. Her ringing voice intoned the phrases of the Bible as if they had been music and bore the burden of her deepest soul.

  5. At the conclusion of this discourse all knelt, and the Holy Father again intoned the Veni Creator Spiritus.

  6. A gospel was chanted, and the holy father intoned the Veni Creator.

  7. The Holy Father arose and intoned the solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving.

  8. In a clear and sonorous voice he intoned the Veni Creator Spiritus.

  9. Four chanters next intoned the litany of the saints in the well-known varying minor strains of Gregorian chant.

  10. Wessel received them courteously on the threshold of the cloister, took the abbess by the hand and intoned the popish hymn Veni, sponsa salvatoris, etc.

  11. When they became aware of my determination to abandon the court for the city, all the counsellors intoned a "hallelujah.

  12. He leaned over the gulf, and imitated with rare perfection the inquiring and rather mockingly intoned hiss of the whip snake calling for a mate.

  13. It came from behind him, and was so angrily intoned that he was most surprised to see a second grizzly, no doubt the mate of the first, slouching along towards him, its head lowered in his track.

  14. With at least one member of the committee in attendance, to see that he played fair, for seven days vigorously was the sutra intoned by the loudest and most brazen of his subordinates, backed by the whole body of priests.

  15. Long had such outcome been expected," intoned the long-nosed man.

  16. Then when the bier was surrounded by the clergy, the "De Profundis" burst forth from the depths of the sanctuary, intoned by invisible singers.

  17. The "De Profundis" had ceased; after a silence, the choir intoned a motet of the eighteenth century, but Durtal was only moderately interested in human music in churches.

  18. With the burnt offering the song of praise was uplifted to the accompaniment of the "instruments of David," the singers intoned the psalm and the trumpets sounded, and this continued until the sacrifice was consumed.

  19. One cleric intoned the evangelist's narrative, another the words of Christ, and a third those of Pilate, Peter, and other single personages.

  20. Was it a mere intoned declamation, essentially a monotone with very slight changes of pitch, like the "ecclesiastical accent" of the Catholic Church?

  21. The precentor having intoned the response, when the monks in full choir took up the antiphon, the mother immediately recognized the voice of her child.

  22. The part especially read and intoned is the Ratna-valiya section of the Pirit (see p.

  23. The Venetians, having intoned the gospel for the day and called for help on Christ and Monsignor S.

  24. Tina, who was on Selvo's boat, intoned the Te Deum; a thousand voices joined him and a thousand oars dashed the waters into foam.

  25. On its arrival two Canons intoned the litany and the Bishop rose up and solemnly pronounced in Latin the words, Deign, O Lord, to grant that this sea be calm and peaceful to us and to all that sail upon it; thus we pray.

  26. The multiplication table, lustily intoned to the tramp of marching feet, called us into a class-room where the older girls were gathered for lessons in reading and writing, arithmetic and geography, sewing and embroidery.

  27. Some lamented him as one of the chief orators of modern Europe, recalling his eloquence in the tempestuous times of the Revolution, when he "intoned mighty hymns in praise of liberty, democracy, and the sacred Fatherland!

  28. And was it not the good Klaus whose voice intoned another outburst of cheering, compared with which the first both in length and vehemence, was mere child's play?

  29. A hundred times, in the weeks that followed, Mary turned the old Vicar's saying into sort of a chant, and triumphantly intoned it as she went about the house, making preparations for her journey.

  30. Then she stooped over farther and buried her face in the wet grass, repeating the rhyme again with her eyes shut and in the singsong chant in which she often intoned things, without giving heed to what she was uttering.

  31. Can you deny,” intoned Miss Cottle strongly, “that the subject of your attentions to me was brought up and discussed in Hewett’s grocery store less than a week ago?

  32. I believe you said you wanted I should look after James’s education,” intoned the spinster.

  33. The bells intoned with them, and a sinking wind carried a lighter ripple against the house.

  34. You have heard the charge against you," intoned the judge in the holy and righteous key of justice about to be administered.

  35. Do you," intoned the judge for the third and slightly more impatient time, "plead guilty or not guilty to the charge of murder against you?

  36. And in excess of what is sometimes witnessed in High churches, the General Confession was intoned by the priest, and responded by the choir and people in song; and the Commandments were intoned by the Vicar himself.

  37. It may be observed that the assistant curate knelt with his back to the congregation, whilst the Vicar intoned the Commandments.

  38. The prayers were intoned by Mr. Westall, a young gentleman whose voice is in some danger of collapsing from sheer tension of monotone.

  39. But this observation was passed in silence, or rather it was interrupted by a musical passage intoned to Marynia in an old wooden voice by the notary who wanted in this manner to illustrate the junction of two phrases in Bruch's concerto.

  40. He held the flaming bundle above his head a moment longer, while he intoned a verse in praise of Ogun, and then flung it against the thatched wall behind him, where it splayed against a post and disintegrated.

  41. Atiba watched silently till each man had a sheaf of straw, then he intoned one last prayer.

  42. Next he intoned an invocation, a whisper under his breath, then circled the men and cast a few drops of water from a calabash toward the four corners of the world.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intoned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.