Perform part of a liturgical service

Usage examples of intone.

The sister then intoned the Beati immaculati which preceded the reading and they began to eat.

A sister was intoning the Beati immaculati prior to the daily reading.

The man rolled up his trousers and carefully took off his laceless shoes so that they might not be spoiled, but he worked reverently, intoning some kind of lament to himself, or perhaps it was a hymn he was breathing.

At dusk these apparitions were paraded through the streets with the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto leading the way, intoning prayers.

The choristers had begun intoning a Latin hymn, and as Michaela and her son emerged into the sunlight, she could see the procession approaching the cathedral steps.

Probably, I figured, and so indeed it turned out, Matzerath, having slaughtered, cleaned, washed, cooked, seasoned, and tasted his eels, had put them down on the living room table in the form of eel soup with boiled potatoes, and when the others showed no sign of sitting down, had gone so far as to sing the praises of his dish, listing all the ingredients and intoning the recipe like a litany.

Kneeling beneath it, holding up his offering, the halfgod intoned a formal invocation to the goddess.

Gregorian chants, intoned and mumbled Introits, Kyries, heard and unheard consecrations.

As the United States repeatedly intoned throughout the post-Gulf War era, Saddam always had it in his power to have the sanctions lifted by simply agreeing to give up his WMD programs.

Penny had intoned, slapping down the bacon and egg sarnies she had cooked.

I intoned, dressed again in the chiton Io had kept for me, crowned with a few wildflowers and girded with my belt of manhood.

Sam intoned religious platitudes, Celia tried to blot out the present and recall the richer past.

Again walking clockwise, he scattered a fine green sand over the line he had drawn and intoned an interminable number of doggerel verses in a singsong voice.

I expected melancholy trombones and basset horns and a chorus of basses intoning the Requiem in reverse: Pietatis fons, me salva, gratis salvas salvandos qui, majestatis tremendae rex.

He intoned softly, "Here ends the tale of Lord Nudd, believe it who will.