Examples of canto in a Sentence
the first canto of Dante's “Inferno”
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There are striking similarities between Frost’s collection and Tennyson’s poem; many of Frost’s poems refer directly to a corresponding canto in Tennyson’s work.
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Unless fans are treated to another bonus canto this time around, last year’s steroidal figure may be just out of reach, even with the extra eyeballs that are tallied in places like Macon and Rhinelander and Joplin and Yuma.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Michael, the default English department heartthrob who satisfies his artistic longings by publishing book-long cantos, isn’t fated for such greatness.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
Rachmaninoff’s variations—to plush D-flat major, and slows Paganini’s brisk tempo to the melting andante cantabile of a bel-canto aria.
—Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
Once a week, Fredericks would read a canto aloud in Dante’s Italian, and Sternau would read it aloud in English translation.
—Benjamin Anastas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
Dante celebrates Giotto’s fame, somewhat sarcastically, in the eleventh canto of Purgatory.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
Written in two cantos, the full work is nearly two dozen verses.
—Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
The show convenes a suite of drawings employing that technique, made between 1958 and 1960: putative illustrations of the thirty-four cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Unless fans are treated to another bonus canto this time around, last year’s steroidal figure may be just out of reach, even with the extra eyeballs that are tallied in places like Macon and Rhinelander and Joplin and Yuma.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Michael, the default English department heartthrob who satisfies his artistic longings by publishing book-long cantos, isn’t fated for such greatness.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
Rachmaninoff’s variations—to plush D-flat major, and slows Paganini’s brisk tempo to the melting andante cantabile of a bel-canto aria.
—Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
Once a week, Fredericks would read a canto aloud in Dante’s Italian, and Sternau would read it aloud in English translation.
—Benjamin Anastas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
Dante celebrates Giotto’s fame, somewhat sarcastically, in the eleventh canto of Purgatory.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
Written in two cantos, the full work is nearly two dozen verses.
—Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
The show convenes a suite of drawings employing that technique, made between 1958 and 1960: putative illustrations of the thirty-four cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
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“Canto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canto. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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