Sentence examples for old chants from inspiring English sources

Were they based on "old chants"?

"I don't take old chants and old dances and modernize them.

To a steady rhythm more than a dozen dancers moved and sang in call-and-response patterns — both old chants and lines from Parliament's "Mothership Connection".

As the protests in Hama grew bolder and bigger last month, he said crowds grew bored with the old chants — "Peaceful, peaceful, Christians and Muslims," "There is no fear after today" and "God, Syria, freedom, and nothing else".

"As new chants are created and old chants die off, the archive preserves history and encapsulates the humor and banter of fans in different cities and countries," Ward said.

For the fans, it was as if Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk were still going toe-to-toe at home plate, with all the raucous old chants coming out of the stands.

'Let's lift some skirts and make it hurt!' Remember that old chant?

And will the old chant have to be revised to: Thirty days hath September, April, Roebuck, and November?

While for some this may be a refreshing sign of political maturity, others are determined to inject new life into the old chant.

Somewhere, a few Americans tried to work up the old chant of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" But this is no longer the Reagan era.

On May 8, Ms. Kamel stood in front of the Church of the Virgin Mary, set ablaze a day earlier, in the impoverished working-class district of Imbaba as young and old chanted, "Down With Mubarak!" But it was not behind-the-scenes machinations of former regime elements that were the only source of rage over sectarian violence that has engulfed this community.