ranted; ranting; rants
: to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion
ranter
noun
1
a
: a bombastic extravagant speech
b
: bombastic extravagant language
2
dialectal British
: a rousing good time
Synonyms
Examples of rant in a Sentence
Verb
“You can rant and rave all you want,” she said, “but it's not going to change things.”
He ranted that they were out to get him.
Noun
after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room
instead of addressing the current crisis, the mayor's speech was a lot of rant emphasizing his accomplishments
Recent Examples on the Web
Virginia Konchan, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Nash's outburst follows a stream of accusations from Macomb County, where Miller has ranted for years about sewage overflowing into Macomb County from Oakland’s big Kuhn retention facility — named after George Kuhn, former Oakland County drain commissioner and Berkley mayor who died in 2012.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Glory be to god for logjams, the antediluvian dark,
for being a supply of goodness outpacing demand
because so many prefer their egos’ endless ranting
to the suggestion of a different narrator or narrative.
—Virginia Konchan, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Nash's outburst follows a stream of accusations from Macomb County, where Miller has ranted for years about sewage overflowing into Macomb County from Oakland’s big Kuhn retention facility — named after George Kuhn, former Oakland County drain commissioner and Berkley mayor who died in 2012.
—Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
More often than not, the play feels like a 90-minute Bill Maher rant.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass.
—Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Rant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rant. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.
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: loud and wild speech
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