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Example sentences for: cant
How can you use “cant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The contributors have, as Johnson advised Boswell, rid their minds of cant.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.
a really dumb liberal article in a magazine that's supposed to avoid reflexive anti-right politics, that sees itself as the puncturer of leftish cant?
Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.
A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...
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