rant
verb (used without object)
to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave.
had ranted
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past perfectof rant.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I had ranted to my friends and family like a maniac as quarantine approached.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2020
Earlier on Saturday Nastase had ranted at a British journalist, Eleanor Crooks, for two or three minutes while she was in the media centre.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2017
A person at his table had ranted savagely about my husband’s career as an artist and a “bloodbath” he took at a recent auction.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2011
In the committee rooms, where Molotov, Gromyko, Malik had ranted and been answered by the champions of the free world, a rearguard of U.N. staffers stuffed their briefcases with forgotten oddments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jackson had ranted wildly against the despatch of abolition literature through the mails.
From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
