intonate

How To Use intonate In A Sentence

• He said the police were forced to show results and intonated that if his client, Mr Zulu, was refused bail it would be a notch on the police's belt. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
• When the voice-producer has learned to intonate surely, when the voice is "placed," and the secrets of the registers are known to him, he will do well to experiment a little, cautiously, with his own resonance-chambers, so as to widen his practical knowledge of the principles underlying the modification of tones. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
• The motor ideas with which the speech movement has to start are cut off and the subject yields passively to the fate that he cannot intonate his voice. Psychotherapy
• Another kind of water -- also very matutinal in its delivery, -- the "_Aqua vita_," is intonated by the _Aquavitario_, in a sharp kestrel key, -- hear him! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
• Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh among themselves," intonated Eliezer. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
• The man has a way with words and language and though he so typically plays a type - the rich but emotionally challenged Brit - the way he twists and intonates words is a source of intoxication.
• The bearers, the priests, and the ailing ones themselves had just intonated a canticle, the song of Bernadette, and all rolled along amid the besetting "Aves," so that the little carts, the litters, and the pedestrians descended the sloping road like a swollen and overflowing torrent of roaring water. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
• Toury and Les Aubrais had been left behind, when, at Beaugency, they at last ceased their chat, on hearing Sister Hyacinthe clap her hands and intonate in her fresh, sonorous voice: The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
• Of a truth, she had sworn never to actually speak again, but now it occurred to her that perhaps she might at least intonate. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs