Example sentences for: litany

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

  • 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 NYT front-pager recites the litany of problems posed by Y2K situation: too much code, too little time, too many unpredictable consequences.

  • The litany of show-business and upper-crust names in the book is staggering.

  • Thane Rosenbaum, in Elijah Visible , grants his characters, who are the children of Holocaust survivors, the right to suffer their own highly American litany of post-Holocaust disorders.

  • 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.


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