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How to use the word chant in a Sentence?

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We were ordered to memorize a series of slogans, when we were practicing bayonet, we were required to follow the instructions of the squad leader with a specific chant for each movement, and we had to repeat it in the exam.

Adam Yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think all of us look at Ben as our brother, we knew this was a hostile environment. It’s hard to chant at Ben Simmons when you’re losing by that much.

Kevin Durant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Last week, I was just in Israel. ... And then when I come back, I see two colleagues, who went and participated with a group that has a leader that many times gives you anti-Semitic views, led a chant for( Russian President Vladimir) Putin. To me, it was appalling and wrong, there's no place in our party for any of this.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We always chant ‘ Death to America ’ but importantly is showing it in action.

Alireza Dabir

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The moment Aubrey Wright heard guilty on manslaughter one -- emotions, every single emotion that you can imagine, just running through your body. I kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation, this is just a step forward in the bigger issue with policing and hopefully there has to be no more Dauntes. No more Dauntes and so many more names we chant in our streets.

Katie Bryant

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The offensive chant from our student section directed towards BYU during the football game last night does not align with our Trojan values.

The Trojans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He is clearly endorsing QAnon in the video. Whether he believes the conspiracy theory is another matter, the' Where General Flynn and I both go one, General Flynn and I both go all' chant makes it clear. It is a QAnon saying. Further, the QAnon folks have all been taking this' pledge' lately online and posting it.

Joseph Uscinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mourners chant slogans against the U.S. during the funeral of Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, in the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Baghdad Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. ( AP) In addition to threatening the U.S. with a possible attack, Abuhamzehs remarks that the targets had been previously identified by Iran seemed to confirm the State Departments statement regarding the motivation behind the airstrike. His comments come after it U.S. defense officials told Fox News that more than 3,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team would be deployed to Kuwait. Irans top shadow commander, as Qassem Soleimani was known, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more. According to State Departments, the airstrike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. Mourners step over a U.S. flags with pictures of President Trump while waiting for the funeral of Iran's top general Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, in Baghdad, Iraq, Baghdad Saturday( AP) SOLEIMANI FUNERAL PROCESSION IN BAGHDAD DRAWS THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS CHANTING AMERICA IS Qassem Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region, the United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world. Mourners gathering in the streets of Baghdad Saturday for Qassem Soleimani funeral procession. Dressed in black military fatigues, the mostly male-dominated group carried Iraqi flags and the flags of Iran-backed militias that are fiercely loyal to Qassem Soleimani. In this image made from a video, mourners gather for a funeral procession for Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. ( PMF Media Office via AP) They were heard chanting.

State Departments

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its no accident that, just a few weeks after he announced his 2020 reelection bid, therehe was indulging and entertaining this Send her back chant, and hes spoken about immigrants as being invaders.

Julian Castro

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

my reggae music was created to chant down babylon. I/we said-they see their dreams and aspirations crumble in front of their face, and all of their wicked intentions to destroy the human race- my reasonings with bob marley and the trench town people put into song.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

It was quite a chant.

Ivanka Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

they see their dreams and aspirations crumble in front of their face, and all their wicked intentions to destroy the human race- we must use reggae music to chant down babylon. All forums of elite domination must be destroyed, and we use reggae music to do it.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I got things to do... I don't have time to chant' Death to America,'.

Mohammad Reza

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are certain sayings that ring in your head long enough to become a chant!

Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

United States of America is the United States of America, what happens if someone walks in with a military uniform and the kids want to chant, ‘ United States of America ’ ? You ca n’t do that ? Are we living in Communist Russia ?

Bill Simonson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was a truck with enormous speakers parked next to the main Ataturk statue, blaring first a sermon by an imam, during which everyone stood quietly with their hands held out, then the soundtrack switched to a ` Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’ chant set to a beat, and the crowd went wild.

Paul Loomis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is clear that during the four years since the chant was brought to the university campus, its existence was known by recent members and ... it became part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter.

Daniel Boren

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Over time the chant was formalized in the local SAE chapter and was taught to pledges as part of the formal and informal leadership process, it is clear that during the four years since the chant was brought to the university campus, its existence was known by recent members and ... it became part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter.

Daniel Boren

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I'm also upset and embarrassed that I failed to stand up as a leader and stop this chant. I now have a clear understanding of what lives behind the words, from this point forward, I will be the leader that I should have been on that bus and stand up against racism in any form.

Parker Rice

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are focused on trying to determine the root of this song or this chant, where it came from, and that's our primary focus. Unfortunately it's been difficult to get some of that communication because the young men have spread... But we are doing our best to get to the bottom of it.

Executive Blaine Ayers

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a rock and a hard place. I can't be as upset at that lady. I'm upset at the fraternity because what they're saying is a chant that's just completely disrespectful to the black race. As far as that lady goes -- man, that's an old lady, man. Let that lady be. it's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music.

The Trinidad-born rapper

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I was shocked they were just doing it openly on the bus, like they were proud of it, from the chant, you could tell they had done it before. It wasn't a first-time thing. And it was everybody. And the fist-pumping.

Jared Scarborough

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When you have a chant going on like that, and no one addresses it, and then a week later, these killings come to fruition, I’m shaken, the rhetoric that’s going around, left unchecked, is very dangerous, and it invites people to do crazy nonsense.

Yuseff Hamm

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

Emily Dickinson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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