How to Use rant in a Sentence

rant

1 of 2 verb
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  • He ranted that they were out to get him.
  • The fouls, the slam dunks, the bands blaring, the ranting coaches.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Blatter always sided with the rest of the world, Trump ranted off the cuff.
    — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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 lawyers ignored him and walked out of the room while Mr. Cohen ranted on the speakerphone.
    — Alexandra Berzon, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • This was made much worse when the neighbor ranted about this on Facebook.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 July 2023
  • 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
  • Rudy just ranted through it, so the clip wasn’t even audible.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 18 May 2018
  • The First Amendment is not just a permission slip to rant on a street corner.
    — Luke Wachob, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Look at old pictures and videos of each other and start ranting about the moment in the photo.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Reed got hammered on Scotch, ranting about his problems with John Cale and the Velvets.
    — Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Jim also ranted about Omer Asik like he if was owed money by him.
    — Clyde Verdin, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 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
  • Anyway, one dad took to Reddit to rant about how this whole inept-dad thing is pretty dumb.
    — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Residents, told to buy bottled water or boil it from the tap, ranted.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Ideally Trump would stop ranting about Mueller and the ‘witch hunt’ and turn his attention to his duties.
    — Paul Thornton, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Either way this middle-aged tough guy rants about how many people have died in Russia.
    — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
  • Upset at a call (what else?), Troicki ranted and raved for four minutes.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 18 May 2018
  • Then videos emerged of Hill ranting at audiences like Fidel Castro on a nasty batch of speed.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.
    — Karen Matthews, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In the segment, featured at the end of every episode, Yang, Rogers and often the guest have 60 seconds to rant about an aspect of life or culture that frustrates them.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • At the Jones trailer, Jughead rants to his dad about the showdown being a terrible idea for many reasons.
    — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 10 May 2018
  • Throughout the 45-minute service, an interfaith group took that invitation to rant, cry and pray to heart.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Taxi TV still exists, even though the Haggler has been ranting about that abomination for years.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • But on May 20, Christian reportedly ranted and swore for over an hour.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 22 June 2017
  • The suspect live-streamed the attack on a popular gaming site while ranting in English about Jews and denying the Holocaust.
    — Fox News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Cohn rants at one point, about having privately lobbied the judge Irving Kaufman to send Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Apr. 2018
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rant

2 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chris says to Linda and Bryan in a rant meant for Nicole.
    — Karla Petersoncolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Here’s the part that Saban left out of his rant, though.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 19 May 2022
  • At the end of the rant, Lively peers at the camera with a look of concern.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • If there was a bridge to mend, Roth’s rant was a wrecking ball.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Brady's rant didn't change the outcome of the game, with the Steelers pulling off a 20-18 upset.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The rant, which lasted about 10 minutes, occurred in front of most of the team.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Kevin says the Stars are better but the Wild is tougher, leading to a rant about what’s wrong with hockey.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • All this was only confirmed by Trump’s rant against him.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
  • In contrast, nothing at the CNN town hall was random aside from Trump’s rants.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Mayor Eric Adams explained it Wednesday night in a rant for the ages.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But Trump didn’t say anything about Carroll in his rant, which must have felt like part of the victory to her.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Dan Harmon had a somewhat famous rant about how dumb this was.
    — Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This racist rant at a MAGA rally just can’t go uncalled out.
    — Sarah Swetlik | [email protected], al, 10 Oct. 2022
  • She’s fired up now, launching into a good old-fashioned rant.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Send advice requests, unhinged rants and Taco Bell gift cards to [email protected].
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • His rant ended up leading to Salesforce stock bouncing back after the call was over.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Share your burning theories, questions, and rants down in the comments.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The feat comes just over a year after Ye went on several antisemitic rants in late 2022.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This is not a rant against the broader e-discovery industry.
    — Jordan McQuown, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • That same month, Bell went on a Twitter rant in response to not being invited.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Lewis Black still provides the occasional rant as well.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 21 June 2022
  • The mother of Paris and Nicky also questioned whether Rinna surfaced her off-camera rant in an effort to save her role on the show.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Each of the three books could be described as a Bernhardian rant, or in some cases a diatribe, centered on the creation and purpose of art.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Drizzy’s rant comes days after a fan threw her bra onstage at a different concert.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 27 July 2023
  • The first film is a bug-eyed rant (delivered, in fact, by Dr. Wilde, the director); the second, a perverse silent movie in which two babies are made up to look like bride and groom.
    — Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The ex-Bravo star's rant included her doubt about the longevity of the couple's relationship.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, the best lip glosses deliver high shine minus the gooey texture that'll inspire your next TikTok rant about your icks.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 27 Jan. 2023

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