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How to use rant in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Rant means to speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. Example: “Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.”

Examples of rant by meaning

verbTo disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner.

  • Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.

More sentences with rant

  • The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.From the entry beef
  • They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.From the entry grammarian
  • While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered.From the entry strung out
  • The latest fact-free rant by the president.From the entry fact-free
  • He got fired after his hate-filled rant went viral.From the entry hate-filled
  • It is the constant antidote to any temptation to laugh at Trump’s rants or gaffes.2026 January 21, Julian Borger, “Trump’s rambling Davos speech rehashes warped ideas of US supremacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry football
  • Monae was on butt when she made sure to single out black men in her rant.2023 May 12, @Craigs_VCR, Twitter. From the entry on butt
  • Ranting about a specific case won't improve the risk from extraordinarily low to superextraordinarily low.2020 January 28, Cycleops, “Is this what a life is worth?”, in www.cyclechat.net, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2021. From the entry superextraordinarily
  • Then he continued his rant in his vehicle when he left but unfortunately pocket called me.2018 January 15, Jez Hemming, “Domino's Pizza delivery man's 'Anglesey retards' rant during pocket dial disaster”, in Daily Post North Wales. From the entry pocket call
  • Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui comes out as bisexual in SCATHING rant against Donald Trump voters.2016 November 19, James Draper, “Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui comes out as bisexual in SCATHING rant against Donald Trump voters”, in…. From the entry femsplaining
  • Sorry I'm ranting and I'm trying my hardest not to panic here.2016, Leni Morgan, How A Good Geek Went Mad Or How A Good Geek Survived The Zombie Apocalypse, illustrated edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry zombiephile
  • A call came in from a red-faced man in uniform, the portmaster, who ranted about the tactic.2014, C. J. Cherryh [pen name; Carolyn Janice Cherry], “Dancing on the Edge of the Dark”, in Greg Bear, Gardner Dozois, editors…. From the entry portmaster
  • At the University of Guelph, some students took Mercer's rant rather seriously.2011 April 22, Michael Taube, “Vote mob mentality”, in Ottawa Citizen, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2011. From the entry vote mob
  • Though I simply apologized and told him his ranting wasn't necessary.2010, Deborah Smith Pegues, Ricky Temple, Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry hill to die on
  • “There’s thems that can and thems that can’t; thems that talk and thems that rant.”2008, Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite, page 87. From the entry thems
  • What if they turned out to be ranting misanthropes or monosyllabic recluses?2008 July 22, Phill Jupitus, “Blood, sweat and ink”, in Guardian, retrieved 15 May 2021. From the entry never meet your heroes
  • Could have been a ranting yob, gone running down the road with all her yobby mates.1998, Helen Zahavi, Donna and the Fatman, page 110. From the entry yobby
  • There, he was loudly ranting about a commercial wasteland he called the “United States of Generica.”1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-Star. From the entry Generica
  • The lights went down on Gilbert ranting and raving about surviving nuclear war.1983 April 30, Sue Hyde, “Expanding Worldviews”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry relight
  • Tall, muscular, golden-skinned, he ranted bitterly about the injustice done to him pre-natally.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 62. From the entry prenatally
  • Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.1941, Players Magazine. From the entry mouthing
  • OK, so that was a bit of a rant.2026 June 6, Noah Smith, “Why Europe should put up trade barriers against Chinese goods. There are benefits far beyond protectionism”, in…. From the entry deadweight loss
  • Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.2025 May 15, “Europe’s free-speech problem”, in The Economist. From the entry collar
  • You may have heard an old crank in a big house ranting about appliances and unflushable toilets the other day.2020 January 3, Timothy Egan, “The Case for a One-Term Joe”, in The New York Times. From the entry unflushable
  • Even an interrobang-filled rant from Sasha Rosenberg?!2019, Ria Voros, chapter 27, in The Center of the Universe, Toronto, Ont.: KCP Loft, published 2024, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry interrobang
  • Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter.2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry miscegenation
  • Schlossberg’s rant angered activists for immigrant rights, who said it reinforced stereotypes that Spanish speakers are not citizens.2018 May 22, Liz Robbins, Maya Salam, “‘I Am Not Racist’: Lawyer Issues Apology One Week After Rant”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry reinforce
  • I have been waiting for some of the conservative threatened males to use that in their rants, but negativo.2018 October 13, bruce56@topmail.co.nz, “The Doctrix”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jan 2026. From the entry negativo
  • That’s one of my biggest rants,” he said. (Dr.2017 May 22, Tammy La Grace, “Drink Up, Business Travelers. The Minibar Is on the Way Out.”, in The New York Times. From the entry minibar
  • In an impassioned rant in the New York Post last week, writer Elisabeth Vincentelli berated the ‘slobification’ of modern society.2015, King and Allen. From the entry slobification
  • “Why can’t we have a mailperson?” he would rant.2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 153. From the entry mailperson
  • In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve.2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 59. From the entry outrave
  • As a protorap song, Dylan's rant ratchets uncannily with the track, the words frequently dissolving into the beat.2012, David Dalton, Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan, →ISBN. From the entry protorap
  • Welch's tedious rant word for word in his ledger.2011, John Jughead Pierson, The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody, page 3. From the entry ledger
  • He was about to stand up and start on another rant, which only would have led to Sam tranqing him.2007, Michele LeBlanc, Belt Buckles and Pajamas, page 65. From the entry tranq
  • And so he ranted and raved but suddenly ran into a trapfall and was nearly unable to escape.2007, Stuart Sargent, The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125) (page 30). From the entry trapfall
  • I prefer to look at the reality of what's actually going on in the world. (rant continued on page 94)'2006 January 15, Ian Pace, “Mahler #6”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet). From the entry continued page 94
  • One night, one of the flatmates (the one who owned the house) was ranting and raving all night about her girlfriend.2003, Jen Birch, Congratulations! It′s Asperger Syndrome, page 51. From the entry flatmate
  • Ronald Reagan ranted about smaller government his whole term, and left us with a bigger establishment than when he left.1999 December 11, James R. Olson, jr, “Re: left and right”, in hawaii.politics (Usenet), message-ID <3852b3eb.41638569@news.lava.net>. From the entry perpendicular universe

Meaning of rant

  1. verb To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
  2. verb To disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner.
  3. verb To criticize by ranting.

Full definition of rant

Questions about rant in a sentence

How do you use rant in a sentence?
Rant is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.”
What is a short sentence with rant?
“Even an interrobang-filled rant from Sasha Rosenberg?!”
What does rant mean?
Rant means to speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.

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