Example sentences for: intoned

How can you use “intoned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hyde intoned, "If we [view Clinton as above the law], we break faith with our ancestors from Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord to Flanders fields, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Panmunjon, Saigon, and Desert Storm."

  • "If I've learned one thing in the movie business and the world of politics," he intoned, "it is that the First Amendment--the 45 spare, unadorned words, bleached dry of all ambiguity--is the one clause in the Constitution that guarantees all others.

  • It is not surprising that my first exposure to non-Brits was in France, where I soon reconciled myself to a Gallic attack on my personal hygiene when they insisted on addressing me as Miss Your Soap, subtly intoned, I always thought, with an interrogatory inflexion.

  • Reading that the government was going to raise taxes, she thumped the newspaper and intoned, You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.

  • "For my part," the flickering image of Gore intoned, "I have proposed dedicating a significant portion of the budget surplus to Medicare to extend the life of the trust fund."


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