The phrase "a sort of chant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a repetitive or rhythmic vocalization that resembles a chant, often in a context related to music, rituals, or group activities.
Example: "The crowd began to join in, creating a sort of chant that echoed through the stadium."
Alternatives: "a kind of chant" or "a type of chant".
Your days reduced to a montage cut to its cowbell beat, inexorable doubled bass line and raunch vocal, a sort of chanted sneer, surrounded by groans of pleasure.
The humble times-tables were once memorized by a sort of chanted catechism; today, our youngest math students make lightning-fast calculations on an array of electronic devices which, ironically, most large-scale assessments forbid.
As someone who's a bit allergic to liturgy, and certainly to any sort of chanting, listening to it was the first time I'd ever clocked just what incantation can do to you.
Dylan sang too fast, in a sort of strong, high chant, and he virtually obliterated the melodies — to no purpose.
The pianist poked himself out onto the hardwood stage, doing a sort of halting, tentative chant and dance, approaching the piano mysteriously, a Martian pondering a monolith.
(Scott) 'One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das' (No rating, 1 12) The native Long Islander at the heart of this documentary is charismatic in his Everyman ease, and concert scenes of him singing kirtan — a sort of call-and-response chant, normally of Sanskrit names for God — are attractive even if you aren't drawn to the music.
In an unbuttoned overshirt with cuffs flapping, torn jeans and high-top sneakers, Mr. Branca became a barometer of the music's intensity, gyrating at the knees, hips and wrists, screaming (though inaudible over the din) some sort of chant mimicking some phrases in the music, looking like a cartoon of Jekyll becoming Hyde.
And there was a nagging voice I heard at the same time every day, like some sort of chant or incantation, unnerving in its consistency.
