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Recent Examples of chant
Verb
During one protest outside a synagogue in Queens, activists chanted pro-Hamas remarks.—CBS News, 28 May 2026 But the home side’s chanting and cheering were quickly muted in the 50th minute when Sarasota midfielder Chandler O’Dwyer curled a shot from 20 yards out into the top right corner of Boise’s net.—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 28 May 2026
Noun
Dart led the crowd in a chant before bringing the president on stage.—Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026 But the group faced widespread backlash, as well, particularly the choice of melody for the chant.—Miami Herald, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for chant
Our mother, who had annoyed me deeply throughout most of my life, managed something so heroic that there should have been songs written about her to be sung around campfires by Girl Scouts.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.
The ghost called Sidhangana, who acts as chorus, is the rainbow.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
But when performed live by the E Street Band, the song flips from black and white to technicolor, with Springsteen opening the song solo acoustic and the band swinging in on the chorus.
In April 2019, Williams shared a nostalgic video of the two serenading her daughter Rowan with a Cheetah Girls hit-turned-lullaby via FaceTime.
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Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
24 May 2026
Say, for instance, a fluffy Sasquatch, or a crooner of a moon in pajamas singing an old-timey lullaby to all the little ones seated cross-legged on the floor.
Emotionally cornered and spiritually exhausted, Anatoly at last lets everything rupture to the surface, sustaining the anthem's climactic note for over 20 seconds.
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
Steely-eyed with their pinkies locked, a girl-power anthem crescendoing behind them.
Latin polyphony and motets are being sung at the Offertory and during the distribution of Holy Communion.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2025
The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St.
Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
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Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
All the more reason to keep this bouncy ditty on loop.
Oh, there were so many birds in the sky—flipped with glee when a referee called offside and overturned a Celtic FC goal in front of a frenzied crowd of 50,000 on a chilly, overcast day at Glasgow's Ibrox Stadium.
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Laura Dannen Redman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 May 2026
There’s an element of sadistic, John Simonesque glee to his attacks on the personal appearances of actors.