Sentence examples for cant from high-quality English sources.

• —Old Cant.

• Cant them; cant them over!

• Children's presenter Brian Cant has died at the age of 83.

• ‘If you can see Criffel’ the saying goes, ‘it’s going to rain; If you cant see Criffel, its raining already.’

• —Ancient Cant.

• —Old Cant for to steal.

• 'Or you feel as though you just cant tell someone how you're feeling.

• Queer, in all probability, is immediately derived from the cant language.

Use cant in a sentence.

• It was considered a cant or gipsy term up to the beginning of the last century.

• Richard cant believe it as there doesn’t seem to be a body where she said she killed him.

• Loper, or LOAFER, however, was in general use as a cant term in the early part of the last century.

• Old Cant indicates that the term was in use as a Cant word during or before the same reign.

• Animals and children have no voice,but we.I try to support with my voice and compession,I cant donate but when iI can I do.

• In England, the term cant still indicates the specialized speech of criminals, which, in the United States, is more often called argot.

• Cant, 24, who comes from a wealthy village in Hampshire, arrived at college in 2014 and was swept into protests against austerity and tuition hikes.

• Written in a lively style and surprisingly devoid of cant, Mariátegui’s essay argued in favour of an alliance between the political and artistic avant-gardes.

cant sentence examples

• But a few old works on “cant”—the language of the thieving underworld—give lexicographers like Mr Green a view of the unguarded, mostly unwritten language of centuries past.

• In 1931 his Cant (on the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn) was a success, and Ordet (1932; The Word), a miracle play set among Jutland peasants, established him as Denmark’s leading dramatist.

• The actor, who was born in New Zealand and grew up in Australia, shared a selfie in November 2019 and captioned the image: "So... delivered 19 cheques to RFS Captain John Lardner, a total of $105k because I cant count apparently, haha all good @NSWRFS."

• The modern sense – defined as “mode of speech abounding in unfamiliar terms, or peculiar to a particular set of persons, as the language of scholars or philosophers, the terminology of a science or art, or the cant of a class, sect, trade, or profession” (OED) – dates from the 17th century.