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What does intone mean?

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  1. (transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
  2. (transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.
  3. (intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
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In the 1812 Overture, Karajan has a famous Russian choir intone the Russian Orthodox hymn normally given to violas and cellos.
Perhaps they had sung the hymns that He was used to hearĀ  to intone around his throne in heaven.
The song leader on a platform and in an immaculate white sweater would intone such hymns as Abide With Me while the visitors might be allowed a decorous Auld Lang Syne.
At dawn, priests intone their first prayers of the day, facing the sun that rises slowly on the horizon.
Urban activists, a tiny minority, must not force the hands of politicians picked by hundreds of millions, they intone.
What they will do is read out a death sentence, intone a chant, then set upon the hostage from all sides.

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