Thesaurus results for INTONING

intoning

verb

present participle of intone

as in chanting

to utter in musical or drawn out tones "The day is begun," the narrator intoned

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Recent Examples of intoning When reading Blake in a Harlem apartment in 1948, Ginsberg was struck with a vision of the Romantic poet, intoning his own verse in his own voice. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026

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chanting

Verb

The rest of the story — the rest of why the crowd was chanting for him — could be explained by everything else, though.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2026
Soon, the police were there in force, but the dedication of the outraged, chanting crowd demanding the men’s release ensured this would be no ordinary standoff.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026