Example sentences for: chant

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

  • The hen is so called for her singing, with a name related to Latin canere to sing, and so to English chant .

  • "These people are so power-hungry and so shameless they'll do anything to win," Dole said at a rally in Glendale, Calif., the day after the debate (before leading the audience in the chant: "It's Our Money, It's Our Money, It's Our Money").

  • Up to 150 men in sarongs crouch in concentric circles around a flickering lamp and chant hypnotically while the story is acted out in the center of the circle.

  • "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch" is an infantile playground chant raised to the level of comic art by a) Cartman's speed-freak/squalling-baby vocal, b) the sophisticated Broadway-style orchestration, and c) the happy notion that people in other cultures (the Netherlands, Holland, China, Africa) would come out in full national regalia to sing about Kyle's mom being a bitch.

  • Granny's parents had a chant I now use with my own credulous daughter: “Tis so if 'tain't so, if Dovey and Lena say so.”


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