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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:
As for Johnson, he believed it to be a cant term, derived...from an Irish word signifying a savage.
Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.
The film is so free of cant that it's positively cleansing: It leaves you both cleareyed and high.
The contributors have, as Johnson advised Boswell, rid their minds of cant.
By initiating his glossolalic cant with beth -element words ( feemalator, wamalama ) and continuing with palatal variations on their respective themes ( jasperator, gamanama ) the boy is apparently responding to the same primal urge that motivated the anonymous creators of our alphabet to begin their artificial series of sounds with aleph, beth, gimel , and daleth --and not with something like zis boom bah!
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