chant
noun
a short, simple melody, especially one characterized by single notes to which an indefinite number of syllables are intoned, used in singing psalms, canticles, etc., in church services.
has chanted
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present perfectof chant (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Hancock has chanted for his band, for a new agent, for a wider audience, for higher fees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Song of the Universal 1 Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
As since the skald has chanted in Ha'vama'l, So passed these sayings pithy through generations; And still from graves they whisper 'mid northern nations.
From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb
For him too, the angel has chanted a song A song that is lulling and true.
From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various
Of him Swinburne has chanted Ave Atque Vale: Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee?
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
