Example sentences for: litany

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

  • (Throughout McCurry's litany of refusal, Sam Donaldson seethes, periodically interrupting with shouts of "Why are you denigrating us?"

  • As for Housman's litany on "employee marijuana use," each of those effects (increased absenteeism, increased accidents, higher turnover, low job satisfaction, etc.) will show up tenfold in relation to employee alcohol use.

  • The German critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger has written of how Grass ranges with masterly skill from high-flown parodies of Catholic litany to the impersonal tone of case histories to slang to dialect and so on.

  • Khouri, a native of Paducah, Ky., site of a major school shooting, cited the familiar litany of parental neglect, breakdown of education and community, and the Internet as causes of teen violence.

  • A delightful essay slams Germaine Greer's new book as "a sour and undiscriminating litany of charges against men."


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