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Meanings of chant in English
Russian
песнопение Broad type of religious songs, predominantly based on speaking or singing rhythmically, in words or sounds.
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Examples for "chanting"
Examples for "chanting"
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This will include abuse through social media messaging and chanting at grounds.
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The far right called out the mayor by name, chanting antisemitic slurs.
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Later, thousands streamed back in the opposite direction chanting, We want peace.
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Reuters journalists have not witnessed the opposition chanting in support of Khomeini.
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Reuters journalists have not witnessed the opposition chanting in support of Khamenei.
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Years later vitriolic supporters still resorted to chants calling him a paedophile.
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Protestantism glories in its sermons as much as Catholicism in its chants.
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They must be in there singing their chants good and loud by-
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There were chants in favour of Osama bin Laden throughout the game.
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In the doorways soft-eyed Syrian women rocked their babies to drowsy chants.
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The climactic clash ends in a last verse of the opening phrase, as of primal, religious chant.
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As he watched, the song which Dick had sung came like a monotonous, religious chant within him:
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They are full of echoes, of religious chant, Armenian folk music, all blended into a free-flowing, often long-stepping melodic style.
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A religious chant terminated the ceremonies, and the couple left the church amid the sound of horns and the firing of guns.
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Sometimes it was religious chanting mixed with Viennese waltzes.
Usage of chant in English
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The chant I heard was as follows, but others are sometimes used:
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Weary male voices chant 'One, two, free!', followed by a chain-clanking thump.
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They would often chant common protest slogans between song breaks at TTN.
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Record how long the chant was able to fend off stray thoughts.
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Not in a day could he learn to chant in noble verse.
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Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
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By midway through the second half, however, the chant of All Blacks!
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The chant rolled in a great thundering chorus through the wintry forest.
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All this the weeping woman told in her chant to the departed.
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Birnier allowed the machine to run through the chant until the end:
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Their long chant is a troll Wikipedia, quite apart from anything else.
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All the other aliens joined the chant, which continued for several minutes.
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The exultant chant of the lone occupant of the building suddenly ceased.
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Under the soaring chant of the Mass I can hardly hear her.
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We used to chant it in the nursery schoolroom on wet afternoons.
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You can almost hear the nation's inner teenager chant in unison: bor-ing.
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