Their chantlike intoned prayers.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The Matriarch's deep voice begins a chantlike spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darksong Rising]

"Do not resist it," Morhion said in a chantlike voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Shadowmage]

The spectral knight's voice became a chantlike whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Shadowmage]

They came, singing too, their voices at last providing the main body of the chantlike round of the other creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

John experiments with tape loops, and strange chords, in the chantlike endings of "Good Morning" and "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" -- endings that would be elaborated on in "I Am The Walrus" and "Hey Jude.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoist Beatles Propaganda] Reference

Last winter, noticing a surge in sales of chant as well as the runaway success of the futuristic, sci-fi videogame Halo — which uses chantlike melodies throughout its soundtrack — Tom Lewis, an A&R executive at Universal Music Classics, launched a kind of "Pop Idol" contest for Gregorian chant, which he advertised in Catholic papers throughout Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vienna’s Newest Boy Band] Reference

Bandleader Paul Jarvis figures the simple, chantlike melodies have Native American roots, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference

Music by the 12th-century visionary herself is also on the program, offering audiences a chance to compare her soaring plainsong style with Ferko's chantlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The new "Bird 1," with a stark drumbeat and chantlike melody that hinted at Peter Gabriel, was a cinematic stream of consciousness: "He caught a fleeting glimpse of a man moving uphill pursued by a bus," Mr. Hyde intoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Many of the men were making lowtoned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

Many of the men were making low-toned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

McPhee went on to analyze the music's layered architecture: the "slow and chantlike" bass, the "fluid, free" melody in the middle register, the "incessant, shimmering arabesques" high in the treble, which ring, in McPhee's phrase, "as though beaten out on a thousand little anvils.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"No doubt, when Menotti heard the B-flat held above the E-flat minor seventh and the F major chords, then resolve to A, followed by the chantlike melody, he got excited and appreciative, grabbed his handsome young composer from America and held him close, later made love, saying yes we are blessed to have each other yes we wake and walk and live together and yes this is the garden from which our musical selves will grow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference

"Barber composed the sorrow of the Adagio by first concentrating on familiar musical elements: a chantlike melody, rising and falling patterns, restful pauses, growing intensity, string consonance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Larson's 'The Saddest Music Ever Written,' reviewed by Michael Dirda] Reference

In retrospect it seemed chantlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Edge] Reference

Many of the men were making low-toned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, barbaric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference