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Example sentences for "intoning"

Lexicographically close words:
intonation; intonations; intone; intoned; intones; intorno; intoxicant; intoxicants; intoxicate; intoxicated
  1. Others may not feel the vibration at all, yet if there has been any inharmony in the bodily organs, these organs are unconscious to the conscious intoning re-harmonization.

  2. The one intoning may or may not be feeling vibrations.

  3. The men were moving beside her now, intoning their singsong chant.

  4. The other men hovered back to watch as he launched a violent dance, slashing the air with the blade while intoning a singsong chant in a voice that seemed to emanate from another world.

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

  6. Listlessly intoning her scale and cutting the half darkness with her finger, she stopped with a start.

  7. Paul saw his mother vanish in the dusk, and, merrily intoning the tune of a hymn, Warren came on toward Paul.

  8. Then the initiators, intoning a hymn which mingled with the bellowing of the beasts, felled with axes one bull after another.

  9. They were wont to sing their war-hymn, the Barrith, only when their blood was up in the joy of battle, intoning it in a low and plaintive voice.

  10. The services were decently and demurely read in their parish churches, chanting was confined to the cathedral, and the science of intoning was unknown.

  11. After that there had been no more intoning at Plumstead Episcopi.

  12. The intoning of the recitative is unnatural and unintelligible, so much so that not even a highly educated Japanese could understand what is going on unless he were previously acquainted with the piece.

  13. 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.

  14. Below the castle the soldiers were intoning a slow and melodious chant that sounded like a psalm.

  15. And then, after intoning a Te Deum, we filed out in pairs, first the women, then the men, along the naked stones until we reached the end of the Via delle Fundamenta.

  16. The trumpets quiet all by intoning that sacrosanct Andante religioso, which concludes in a mysterious chord through which the notes of the harp thread themselves.

  17. Then he began to sing, his eye swimming in ecstasy, in the tone of a canon intoning vespers, Quoe cantica!

  18. Every little while a procession of intoning priests shuffle by to go to some altar in one of the side-chapels for some particular service.

  19. At times, this undercurrent harmonized with the main current of intoning and chanting, but quite as often the discord was positively distressing.

  20. A black-robed monk from the monastery is engaged, almost without cessation, in intoning prayers of various sorts, before one or another of the images.

  21. From somewhere among the distant rooftops came the thread of a man's voice, intoning a high-pitched melody, trilling out wordless syllables like some intense poetry of sound.

  22. Then she was wrapped in linen, lifted onto a bamboo bier, and carried toward the river ghats by the Hindu servants, winding through the streets with her body held above their heads, intoning a funeral dirge.

  23. Again was heard the monotonous voice of the clerk intoning the roll and the listless responses of the accused.

  24. They were constantly halted by the sudden assembly of a crowd to listen to some singer perched on a chair above their shoulders, intoning his ballads.

  25. Why does not the clergy, instead of intoning a Te Deum, take the part of that slave?

  26. The Host elevated, all marched back again, the dreary intoning now beginning afresh.

  27. Sweet soft chanting of boys' voices, with a delicious organ accompaniment, was going on when I entered, soon to be exchanged for the unutterably monotonous and lugubrious intoning of black-robed choristers.

  28. The choir is filled with choristers, men and boys intoning the service so skilfully that they almost seem to sing.

  29. He had-a rich baritone voice, and Rachel listened in pious delight to his intoning of the prayer.

  30. An angel's voice could not have been more melodious and sweet, and the beauty of the prayer acquired truly a Divine strength through Rachel's intoning of the pious words.

  31. It was all he could do to find his way from pillar to pillar; he had nearly fallen over the few kneeling women who crouched there listening to the clergy intoning Latin verses.

  32. I am sure the service is exactly as you describe it, and I would not for the world destroy the picture you have evoked of those forgotten priests intoning their vespers in the middle of the granite church behind a three-branched candlestick.

  33. And who knows," he thought moodily, "how long they will go on intoning their dreary Latin doggerel?

  34. There could be no doubt of its being a human voice which they had heard, as if intoning a song or chaunt, but uttered in some unknown tongue--such as that in which the ancient Indians used to converse with their divinities.

  35. It appeared as a chorus of many voices intoning some solemn chaunt.

  36. At mention of this name the reader will call to mind the noble muleteer Trujano, whose firm voice he has heard intoning the De profundis and In manus while struggling against the inundation.


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