Example sentences for: chants

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

  • 274: "Chants Taking"

  • A bard, banging a cymbal, chants a story, while his partner — a trained monkey — dons the masks and hats of various Chinese opera characters, mesmerizing the crowd.

  • Hans Winkler, the German Semitist, noted in 1935 that glossolalia, incantations, and children's chants all display certain common tendencies, namely, 1) the repetition of a given motif ( feemalator, jasperator; touchar souchar; astramuphar, astramuchur ), and 2), the economical use of the vocal apparatus.

  • Critics call it preposterous and filled with baffling inconsistencies, or as Roger Ebert writes, "[m]ovies like this are particularly vulnerable to logic" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Words such as "ridiculous" and "absurd" pepper the reviews: It's "fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out how religious leaders persuaded the filmmakers to change the story's ending.)

  • The band's concerts were filled with dance, light shows, midgets, fire breathing, and space chants.


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