ranted; ranting; rants
: to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion
ranter
noun
1
a
: a bombastic extravagant speech
b
: bombastic extravagant language
2
dialectal British
: a rousing good time
Examples of rant in a Sentence
Verb
“You can rant and rave all you want,” she said, “but it's not going to change things.”
He ranted that they were out to get him.
Noun
after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room
instead of addressing the current crisis, the mayor's speech was a lot of rant emphasizing his accomplishments
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City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
She is outwardly spoken against transgender rights and has ranted several times about Representative Sarah McBride, an openly transgender member of Congress, and her pronouns.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
On the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians, the SKIMS co-founder, 45, is asked about her ex's behavior, which has included online rants about Kardashian and her family.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
She is outwardly spoken against transgender rights and has ranted several times about Representative Sarah McBride, an openly transgender member of Congress, and her pronouns.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
Lewis Black’s rant against protein Doritos was classic Gen-X complaining, the kind of thing Denis Leary used to bleat between music videos on MTV back when MTV had music videos and not just endless reruns of pre-unionization Ridiculousness.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
On the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians, the SKIMS co-founder, 45, is asked about her ex's behavior, which has included online rants about Kardashian and her family.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Rant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rant. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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: loud and wild speech
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