Example sentences for: cant

How can you use “cant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The film is so free of cant that it's positively cleansing: It leaves you both cleareyed and high.

  • He likes the idea of hollow cant being delivered in clipped cadences by a broad, especially one under emotional strain.

  • Also, of course, skeptical of cant and immune to flattery.

  • There has been a great deal of cant in the past 30 years to the effect that Dior's era forced helpless women into a posture of submission with its fussily constructed garments, cumbersome skirts, cinched waists, and rigid hairstyles, crippling their feet in high heels and imprisoning their hands in white gloves.

  • The contributors have, as Johnson advised Boswell, rid their minds of cant.


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