Example Sentences

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The fans back home should have been chanting “Ge-no!” — but this time, far too often, it was “oh, no!”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

England's ecstatic players celebrated on the pitch in front of their fans at full-time by singing 'Sweet Caroline' which fans have been chanting throughout the tournament.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2021

Matchmaker Sima Taparia’s favorite word, “compromise,” was repeated to me so many times that people around me may as well have been chanting it as a mantra.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2020

So, while New Yorkers and Ocasio-Cortez supporters have been chanting “AOC!”

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2018

She might have been chanting an invocation to the night.

From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice