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Example sentences for "ranting"

Lexicographically close words:
ransomed; ransoming; ransoms; rant; ranted; rants; ranunculuses; raound; rap; rapacious
  1. Suave, competent Defoe, ranting at me like a wounded Gogarty!

  2. I had spent three solid weeks getting blind drunk, ranting and raving and staggering up to every passer-by who would listen and whining to him that the Company was evil, the Company was murderous, the Company had killed my wife.

  3. Yet why should I be concerned about their ranting and raving?

  4. Presently Stephens arrived, and a man who had been ranting in the pulpit, merely, as it seemed, to occupy the people till he should come, immediately yielded his place to him.

  5. There was no huge "Ilfracombe Hotel," and the Capstone Hill was not strewed with whitey-brown biscuit bags and the fragments of bottles, nor continually vocal with nigger minstrels and ranting preachers.

  6. And she, as the saying is, was as good as he at all his vile and ranting tricks.

  7. Upon this a long Speech from a Director, denying that it was so, and One made answer to him in a bouncing, ranting Harangue; but to hear how the Shareholders did shout and cheer whenever he accused the Board of a Piece of Roguery!

  8. The engraver, it seems, might introduce his Satanic majesty ad libitum in his cuts; but when a ranting preacher takes the same liberty in his discourses, he is called upon to give proof of personal acquaintance.

  9. She was about leaving, when Mr. Richardson said to her, it was a foul shame for one like her to give heed to the ranting of the Quakers, and bade her be a good girl, and come to the meeting.

  10. Meeting much disturbed yesterday,--a ranting Quaker coming in and sitting with his hat on in sermon time, humming and groaning, and rocking his body to and fro like one possessed.

  11. Fred was ranting mad--said he wanted a boy--when the truth is he didn't want it at all.

  12. Whisht, gudewife; is this a time or is this a day to be singing your ranting fule sangs in?

  13. Then I wad ware my widowhood Upon a ranting Highlandman' This canticle, which excited a suppressed titter among the younger part of the audience, totally overcame the patience of the taunted man of the anvil.

  14. The very piper was delighted with the ranting chield, and ever, as his clap and hoogh!

  15. He that will be cheated of his salvation, and forsake his God, for the ranting scorns of a distracted sinner, is worthy to be damned.

  16. Whisht, gudewife; is this a time, or is this a day, to be singing your ranting fule sangs in?

  17. Then I would ware my widowhood Upon a ranting Highlandman.

  18. Before you go let me ask if you know a vagabond called Ranting Rody, who goes about through the country living no one knows how?

  19. His master was a vivacious Frenchman, who, one day, came upon him as, under the instruction of Chetwood, he was studying a part in some stilted and ranting tragedy.

  20. She had been a "stroller," ranting tragedy in barns and country towns, and playing Cupid, in a booth at suburban fairs.

  21. Better take the start with him along with the rest, and join the ranting Highlanders.

  22. Cause Ranting Rob, poor fellow, was lagged [Transported for burglary] for doing a panny!

  23. Ranting Rob, the strolling player, taught him his letters, and said he'd a deal of janius.

  24. And why should not Ranting Rob tache the boy Latin and vartue?

  25. I ask your pardon, humbly,' and his tone seemed to scorch her, 'that this second fit of ranting should have seized me in your presence.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.