CANT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for CANT, such as:

1. A good heart cant's lie.
2. let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.
3. I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
4. In the matter of cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given points to a miss.
5. Don't you insult human relations by dragging all this cant about buying and selling into it.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cant
 n.  inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect
Classic Sentence:
1  let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
4  Don't you insult human relations by dragging all this cant about buying and selling into it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
5  In the matter of cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given points to a miss.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
6  Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIV
Example Sentence:
1  I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
2  A good heart cant's lie.