If you intone something, you say it in a slow and serious way, with most of the words at one pitch. He quietly intoned several prayers `But Jesus is here!' the priest intoned. = chant. to say something slowly and clearly without making your voice rise and fall much as you speak (entoner, from intonare, from tonus; TONE)
To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service
utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"