The director asked the opera singer to intone the aria differently. From LearnThat.org.
What you spookily intone sounds right to me, Cowboy. From Wordnik.com. [TPMDC Morning Roundup] Reference
WARE: ... who intone (ph) tribal chants before operations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2007] Reference
Hard to say ... but as the broadcasters intone, "stay tuned.". From Wordnik.com. [FEC Commissioners Talk About Press Exemption] Reference
Some to the police who intone tribal chants before operations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2007] Reference
TO SIMON: To intone liberal orthodoxies in a deep, soothing voice. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzwords] Reference
There is no need to intone the litany of these transgressions here. From Wordnik.com. [What We Have Left Undone] Reference
Now, as sports announcers love to intone, it all comes down to this. From Wordnik.com. [CARTOON CONTEST: Today's the final day to vote for your pick] Reference
The music will be mostly original instrumentals using my voice only to intone. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bird Bringing 'Gezelligheid' Concerts Back To Chicago This Winter] Reference
Almost the same gentlemen intone the same refusals for almost the same reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Three Guineas] Reference
See how smart she was, she seems to intone as she compares the picture to my father. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
To his perception monks do not chant or intone, they bawl and bellow their litanies. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
I mean, really, I could here him intone those points from now until tomorrow morning. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To Civil Rights Conference] Reference
Comedians mocked his gravelly voice as he would intone, "Evansville, Indiana, hello.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN's Larry King says he'll retire as talk-show host] Reference
"You wouldn't even talk to the president of Spain!" he would intone with mock gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
Uncertain how to proceed, I intone something half-baked, sprinkled with cheery uplift. From Wordnik.com. [An English teacher learns how to deal with medicated students] Reference
'History separates everything, eventually,' Freud would intone in the heartless tombs. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
Of course, let no one think for a moment that we are going to intone a mea culpa here. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO DENOUNCES IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALIS AT] Reference
So Polly soon learned to intone the service, not the words, but exactly the intonation. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
Round past the hedge I wend, and, leaning on the rock, I intone verses gently to myself. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
These governments all piously intone that the money will not end up in the hands of Hamas. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"No one knows how many unsafe products are sitting on Wal-Mart shelves," the radio ads intone. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart's Critics Focus on Safety] Reference
In a typical program, expectant parents intone numbers, letters, words and colors like mantras. From Wordnik.com. [Special Issue: How Kids Grow Do You Hear What I Hear?] Reference
At Egwene's nod, she took one step forward to intone the ancient formula in a clear, high voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
The metaphor, as author-narrator David McCullough might intone with lyrical gravity, is baseball. From Wordnik.com. [The First Pitch: Calling upon Ken Burns to consider the American cartoon] Reference
"Oh! don't forget, Miss Vernon, I wouldn't miss hearing Mr. Douglas intone the service for worlds.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
They want to, you know, intone with the great baritone of authority that here's the next president. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Election 2000 Coverage Casts Media in a New and Often Unappealing Light - November 12, 2000] Reference
But if you wanted to buy two Fords, Long would intone, the fella's not big enough to handle the deal. From Wordnik.com. [Testing Ground] Reference
The voice would intone, "Now serving G64 at counter 26," and I would wait for that person to sprint forward. From Wordnik.com. [Driven nuts by a five-hour wait at the MVA] Reference
KURTZ: I know I intone a lot of the coverage of Torricelli has basically been "couldn't happen to a nicer guy.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2002] Reference
However, it is now somewhat surreal to intone repeatedly that "we all know what a peaceful solution looks like.". From Wordnik.com. [Mitchell Cohen: Aristotle Negotiates the Middle East] Reference
This chant ended, the monks intone incantations of Kuan Yin, quite unintelligible even to them, but of magical value. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
The coloring is stark, practically black, white, and red, but manages to intone all the shades of grey of the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Bryan Young: Exclusive Preview of DC Comics' Cuba: My Revolution] Reference
I would have to stand in front of a large group of people and proudly intone, "You so crazy, I want to have your baby.". From Wordnik.com. [Liza Palmer: Memo to the Woman who Sang Nelly's "E-I" at Karoake the Other Night] Reference
“For journalism makes nothing happen,” Kevin Feeney would begin to intone, somewhere between martinis three and four. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
Then turning to the scroll, he read in a curious, monotonous intone, part of Solomon's prayer at the opening of the Temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
Without any apparent sense of self-irony he took to his Wall Street Journal pulpit to intone, “Now Obama Has to Govern.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman] Reference
So as always, when I am feeling out of control and angry and sad I try to figure out what I can do, BE THE CHANGE, I intone. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Lee Curtis: Crimes and Misdemeanors] Reference
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