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US
/ˈɹænt/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːnt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːnt/ ]
NOUN
- pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
VERB
- talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
How To Use rant In A Sentence
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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- The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
- Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
- McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.
- Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve. How to make perfect strawberry jam
- While San Mateo is a pleasant destination for home shopping and browsing, it also has excellent restaurants and cafes.
- So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
- Did Michelin-starred chefs abandon their restaurants after the passage of hygiene standards laws? Times, Sunday Times
- This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood