How to Use rant in a Sentence
- He ranted that they were out to get him.
-
Rudy just ranted through it, so the clip wasn’t even audible.
—Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 18 May 2018
-
The fouls, the slam dunks, the bands blaring, the ranting coaches.
—The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2023
-
This was made much worse when the neighbor ranted about this on Facebook.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 July 2023
-
When someone is ranting and raving about you, ignore them.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
-
Pity those, too, ranting about the impurity of his points.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
-
No need to rant and rave at the AI about its code generation.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
-
Jim also ranted about Omer Asik like he if was owed money by him.
—Clyde Verdin, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
-
Look at old pictures and videos of each other and start ranting about the moment in the photo.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 8 Apr. 2023
-
Residents, told to buy bottled water or boil it from the tap, ranted.
—Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2019
-
Either way this middle-aged tough guy rants about how many people have died in Russia.
—Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
-
Anyway, one dad took to Reddit to rant about how this whole inept-dad thing is pretty dumb.
—Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 29 Mar. 2017
-
Anybody who's seen him on-screen knowns that Nic Cage can rant like nobody else, and this wasn't that.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
-
Redd wanted to rant, but Mack was gone, and Barbara as well, so there was no one around to rant to.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
-
The First Amendment is not just a permission slip to rant on a street corner.
—Luke Wachob, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
-
Brian Cox, who can rant and rave with the best of them, will tag in once Day-Lewis is aged out.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
-
Later, the character will rant about how tough his life has been, how straight guys worked half as hard and went twice as far, but where’s the proof?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022
-
While both were ranting about their days, Ryan revealed a gray Vera Wang bag.
—John-John Williams Iv, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2017
-
Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.
—Karen Matthews, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
-
My husband and my mother had a significant fight, and my mom ranted to her parents about it.
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
-
There are plenty of people my lovely wife Cassandra rants against — some of whom don't even live in our house.
—Joel Stein, Time, 24 Aug. 2017
-
This guy is apparently in a room, ranting about everything else.
—NBC news, 30 Nov. 2025
-
This guy is, apparently, in a room ranting about everything else.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
-
This guy is, apparently, in a room ranting about everything else.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
-
Sceviour wrote that Bibaud ranted that her father was a judge who would be furious about her arrest.
—Maria Cramer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
-
Black San Diego has its roots with one of Green’s rants about what wasn’t going on in her community.
—Cheryl Morrow, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
-
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
-
For several minutes, Nathan ranted about the conditions in the jail.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
-
Then videos emerged of Hill ranting at audiences like Fidel Castro on a nasty batch of speed.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2023
-
Reed got hammered on Scotch, ranting about his problems with John Cale and the Velvets.
—Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
-
Memes and red meat rants do nothing.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
-
Knight drops clues during the rant.
—Doug Haller, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
-
And this isn't even an anti-dog rant!
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
-
That epic rant seemed to get the Bruins on a roll.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
-
The best way is to talk to me, don’t go on the court and rant and rave about it.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
-
The in-car rant that followed was jarring to hear.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
-
Any chance a player could have recorded the rant?
—Doug Haller, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
-
Russo quipped to begin his lengthy rant.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 Dec. 2025
-
If there was a bridge to mend, Roth’s rant was a wrecking ball.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
-
This is the year where an Aries rant goes viral and changes your life.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 23 Dec. 2025
-
That's not a normal radio rant.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
-
That turned into more of an old-school rant that ended with a bit of a smile.
—Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2022
-
Or at least work it into his anti-Trump rant.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
-
By the end of Cody’s rant, fans applauded him.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
-
But then the singer continued her rant into the late night.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
-
Sorry for the rant, but this one really grinds my gears.
—Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
-
The ceremony needs a good rant or two!
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
-
Back and forth in the room, the chorale, then the brass, chorale and brass, chorale and brass, driving the rant.
—Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
-
That film is now a niche cult classic, but that’s a rant for another time.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
-
By week two, Joi had become my go-to for rants about my day or gossip about friends.
—Amogh Dimri, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
-
Dan Harmon had a somewhat famous rant about how dumb this was.
—Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
-
Her epic Valentine’s Day rant had tongues wagging for weeks.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2026
-
The rant has become too much a part of Knight’s history.
—Doug Haller, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
-
At the end of the rant, Lively peers at the camera with a look of concern.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
-
Graham would walk back and find the doctor waiting to play the Knight rant.
—Doug Haller, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
-
One video shows the pair lying in traffic and angering strangers with their bizarre rants.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
-
Her rant lasted 10 minutes while my boyfriend just sat there and said nothing.
—R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
-
The rant, which lasted about 10 minutes, occurred in front of most of the team.
—Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
-
The rant yields its own resolution.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
-
Expect typical teenage rants about things not being fair.
—Katie Grant, Parents, 16 Dec. 2025
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'rant.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
