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
Carlyle has chanted all this gustily enough but there is kindling truth in his stormy music.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
Victor Hugo is the god of his idolatry, and he has chanted his praise in prose and verse, in "ode and elegy and sonnet."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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
After the owner of this object has chanted for a few moments in an almost inaudible manner the beads begin to roll from side to side as if animated.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
