Example Sentences

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Bishop Budde’s soft-spoken style “makes you listen to every world and winds up being more powerful than someone who is ranting and raving,” Bishop Robinson said.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2020

There was something missing, she concluded, from the book’s metaphysics as promulgated by the headmistress, “an incredibly powerful, dominant and self-obsessed person who is ranting about having no self.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

Everyone is ranting and raving about it,” she said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2015

This is the version you take “Lear” virgins to, knowing they won’t become confused, even when the title character is ranting in seemingly nonsensical poetry.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

In the foreground of this colored cinema which goes by and passes again, Brisbille, the sinister, is ranting away, as always.

From Light by Wray, Fitzwater