How To Use Gallop In A Sentence

Horses Wednesday mainly galloped, jogged, or walked, but the first official workouts are most likely to occur on Thursday.
We rode hardish (some people would have called it a hand-gallop) most of the way; up hill and down, across the rocky creeks, through thick timber. Robbery Under Arms
The walk home was less of a gallop and quite honestly it was a relief to get into bed.
Our problem since then is that we can't get them to the gallop because the roads are too icy to walk them on. Times, Sunday Times
The new owners will be able to visit trainers' yards and to watch the horses work on the gallops.

Nora tightly clutched the horse's reins as she galloped along the countryside.
As inaccurate as the weapons were, especially on a galloping horse, he would only be hit by blind chance.
The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle. The Boy Knight
They say the tide in the bay comes in faster than a galloping horse. Times, Sunday Times
One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
To win a Festival race you need a strong galloping horse who can jump well. The Sun
Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians.
The project began at full gallop.
We can't touch a hair of the galloping horse.
My imagination galloped around the possible, the impossible and the absurd. Times, Sunday Times
He goes off in front and just gallops. The Sun
They were capable of galloping off down this sort of a tangent for hours. TIME OF THE WOLF
He can gallop on the wild horses of wave and wind, outspanning his team in the caravanserai of night. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
After 1pm a range of events will take place at the Langton Wold Gallops including a parade of hunting hounds, a celebrity pony Grand National and dressage display.
Then on, with, the galloping even triplet of the house's hoofs beneath me, as they came down in quick succession, as if the earth were a muffled drum and we were beating an untiring rataplan on her breast. Mr. Isaacs
He got his horse from one of the stablemen, and galloped out the curtain wall when the drawbridge was down.
He's a big horse who has worked nicely and went well in a racecourse gallop. The Sun
The tune. That’s what stays in your mind. When the tune starts galloping, you need reins to hold on to it. The words become useful there. They are the reins that allow you to ride the horse. Gulzar
Ring leaders urged the baying mob, which included women and children as young as seven, to stand their ground despite facing mounted police galloping towards them at full charge.
Both of them draped their cloaks around themselves and mounted their horses as she galloped up on her grey charger.
In the free-floating exchange of ideas, however, the scientists repeatedly put reins on wildly galloping progress.
The only sounds Gitty could hear were the clops of Nestle's hooves, galloping down the empty road.
The instant the reins were passed, the horse bolted to a full gallop flying down the dirt road.
With 35 horses galloping in a straight line over nine furlongs this famous cavalry charge is a thrilling race, made even more exciting by the hope of backing the winner.
An inbound courier flashed past them, galloping horse lathered and blowing. THE CURSE OF CHALION
This should be run at a stronger gallop. The Sun
Visitors scattered as the bear galloped heavily across the road, pursued by the snarling dog. Times, Sunday Times
Bondy, Claye, and Chalons, towards Metz, to track the new Berline; and gallops a franc etrier. The French Revolution
He wasn't galloping yet, he was pacing, the gait in between a canter and a gallop, though not many horses can.
Alas, the wish list also contains somewhat less thrilling aspirations such as - I kid you not - riding a roller-coaster, galloping a horse across a beach and wondering at a waterfall.
Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
One of my friends, Henry, who gallops horses at Laurel took me to the backside.
She quickly slowed Hope down from her fast-paced gallop to an excited springy walk.
He stood the pace better and eight minutes after the break Will snapped up a loose ball and outpaced the defence with a length of the field gallop.
The party fell silent as they urged their horses into a canter, then a steady gallop.
A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
A lot of slapstick, seat-of-the-pants saving dishes from total disaster, which involved even more galloping around. Times, Sunday Times
Downsizing continues apace with radical change thanks to galloping new technology, while the current merger epidemic leads to unpredictable job loss.
Native horses and camels galloped across the plains of North America.
He could hear the horse galloping off before even the bang of the door slam faded out.
Fearing he had lost too much time, the lad galloped as fast as he could to the palace.
We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli. The Hawaiian Archipelago
The horses broke into a mad gallop when they heard the gunshot.
Outlaw rarely gallops, no longer butts, only periodically kicks, comes in to the pole and does her work without attempting to vivisect Maid's medulla oblongata, and -- marvel of marvels -- is really and truly getting lazy. FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR
Three utterly madcap men in tights and sneakers take the theatre by storm as they gallop through the tragedies, histories and comedies at a speed that will leave you gasping.
We now love jumping and he's an amazing jumper, galloping and hacking.
The colt reared and began galloping when other horses breezed past him.
A condor soared high above me as I watched two gauchos on horseback gallop across the plain chasing a herd of horses that they then drove through the river in an explosion of spray.
He may need further these days but they went at a good gallop and that helped him. Times, Sunday Times
I would be happy to find some remnant scrub land locally, but it has mostly been cleared so as not to impede these galloping pets. Times, Sunday Times
A herd of wild horses galloped across the pampas, tossing their heads in a display of wild exuberance, against a backdrop of snow covered mountains.
Bring him back!" ordered Hugh, and his officers swung willingly into the byroad, and spurred into a gallop after the fugitive. The Holy Thief
There have been several other fatalities away from the track on training gallops.
Just then 15 people came galloping from the front room and out the door. The Knight And The Seismo-Dragon
A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon. Neil Yates: Five Countries – review
First, smugglers and excisemen battle it out on the sea wall, with horses galloping, cannons blazing and much ketchup spilt. Times, Sunday Times
Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
He was galloping down the road
Here a 'em, thinking aye that ye was riding no far ahint us, and when a hears a gallopin' an 'turns roond, ye've santed, an' here's a pack o 'thae bluidy dragoons that wad blast ye black in the face an' speir the inside oot o 'a wheelbarra. Stories of the Border Marches
On the gallops, the horses loop and turn like a circus troupe. Times, Sunday Times
He saddled his horse, mounted, and rode away at a gallop.
Before trains, cars and aircraft the fastest vehicle was a galloping horse. Times, Sunday Times
A chukka is a seven-and-a-half-minute period of play, which is generally agreed to be about the right amount of time for a pony to be galloping around - although real pros often change pony several times within a chukka, leaping nimbly from saddle to saddle without touching the ground. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
King, to whom he gallopped immediately, and although he beheld him to bee very angerly moved; yet he spared not to speake in this maner. The Decameron
A sudden collapse of the pound could lead to equal and opposite problems, such as galloping inflation.
We landed softly on the other side, continuing a smooth gallop, until I checked him back to a canter, trot and then walk.
So will follow the galloping grey into the land of legend this weekend.
The race worked out well as he had a good turn of speed and they went a slow gallop. The Sun
Scarcely had the feodary read, re-read, and then destroyed this secret and singular missive, when the "Ho! hollo!" of Her Grace the Princess 'outriders rang on the crisp December air, and there galloped up to the broad doorway of the manor-house, a gayly costumed train of lords and ladies, with huntsmen and falconers and yeomen following on behind. Historic Girls
But it's unremarkable in its style, galloping along like a transcript of a conversation you might hear on a bus.
Few people are likely to read his census, but anyone who appreciates the printed word will gallop through his new account of how it came to be.
In galloping, the epaxial and hypaxial muscles function to produce dorsoventral bending of the vertebral column, and muscles fire bilaterally and uniphasically.
It's the same as me galloping on a horse on a beach. Times, Sunday Times
He goes off in front and just gallops. The Sun
It can be either and a gallop is a "no-no" in a harness race. Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse
His performance is superb and the change in his face as he gallops towards psychological collapse is remarkable to watch.
Suddenly a brown-haired stallion came galloping out of the brush.
I do a lot of jogging with him for three or four days after he breezes and then start galloping him because he does work so fast.
Pierre, bending over his saddlebow and hardly able to control his shying horse, galloped ahead of the soldiers where there was a free space. War and Peace
When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Will they all gallop to the new trough, and then suffering the dysbiosis, wonder who to blame? Medical Care - From Mayonnaise Jars to Mandates
Jo galloped across the field towards him.
The tune. That’s what stays in your mind. When the tune starts galloping, you need reins to hold on to it. The words become useful there. They are the reins that allow you to ride the horse. Gulzar
He yelled and they set off, spurring their horses into a gallop.
The brigadier is a capital fellow; and though he does keep us hard at work, at any rate he works hard himself, and does not send us galloping about with all sorts of trivial messages that might as well be unsent. With Moore at Corunna
Napoleon literally sat his horse on a hill overlooking the battlefield while aides-de-camp galloped to and fro delivering messages and orders.
Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches.
During Cowboy Mounted Shooting, cowboys and cowgirls galloping horses shoot balloons with blanks.
I enjoy galloping over the fields.
I whistled up my trusty steed and galloped across the badlands towards a rundown town, my mount kicking up grit with its hooves. The Sun
The shaved flanks of the galloping horses were flecked with foaming sweat.
Hawkins, gaining in confidence as the game progressed, galloped down the left and looped in a pinpoint cross for him to attack from point blank range.
It is the height of folly and a tragic waste to gallop into war.
They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them. Chapter 12
The rate setters want to restrain inflation, as well as galloping house prices, consumer spending and debt levels.
Another charro from a competing team galloped after him. Charreada in Guadalajara
The pace gallops along, the plot is difficult to predict, if not well nigh impossible, and the narrative draws you inside the covers so that every intrusion which makes you put the book down is resented.
He went off at a hand-gallop, and then pulled back into a long darting kind of canter, which Bilbah thought was quite the thing for a journey — anyhow, he never seemed to think of stopping it — went on mile after mile as if he was not going to pull up this side of sundown. Robbery Under Arms
That race was run in almost course record time despite the early gallop being steady. Times, Sunday Times
At a quarter to eleven she galloped back up to the attic room.
The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other.
A loud whinny broke his thoughts, and Dirano's head turned sharply, and he saw a blur of a white horse, rearing and galloping towards him.
Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technology.
Coolmore pacemaker Ice Dancer set a pointlessly fast gallop and was ignored. Times, Sunday Times
While out riding in 1711, she came upon an area of open heath, not far from Windsor Castle, that looked an ideal place for ‘horses to gallop at full stretch.’
They are trained around a section of the gallops which is modelled on Tattenham Corner, so none of them should be surprised when they meet the real thing.
There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
Occasionally a single horseman would gallop up and brandish his spear, while he covered himself with his large leathern shield, returning as fast as he went and shouting: "Shields to the wall, you soldiers of the _gadado_! Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
The other is a modern magus, galloping towards his fiftieth birthday with a lifetime of grand work behind him, and so much more still to do.
The American wheeled around on his great bay horse and galloped off in the direction of the American lines. THE HUNTING OF MAN
An artillery battery belonging to the Seventh Virginia Regiment galloped after and did some damage.
Their hooves threw up clods of earth as they galloped across the field.
Far from his California base, Meteor Storm seemed unfazed by the coastal change as he galloped along confidently in fourth, with Javier Castellano in the leathers, as Wild Buddy set the early pace.
However, he has galloped through the past 18 months at a distinctly unacademic pace. Times, Sunday Times
Most people didn't like getting too close to prisoner escorts, no, but leaving at a gallop was a rather extreme reaction. The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel
There is no kind of stonework which can compare, under certain circumstances, with the point of a lance or the edge of a machete, and the bearers of a number of such weapons were to be seen coming toward him at a gallop. Ahead of the Army
Here it comes," Hill said, and without another word he galloped back toward his command. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
I love the "galloping" shots you got here! glad every one had fun and survived it all, even "itchy hips"! I Should Get a T-Shirt Printed
The clopping of hooves could be heard faintly over the wind as a band of riders on black stallions came galloping along side of us.
It wasn't so long ago that I was riding out alongside the youngster on the gallops at Ayr racecourse, his father having sent the boy to her yard in his school holidays to learn the rudiments of riding racehorses.
He followed up a facile victory at Hexham, with a brave success in testing conditions at Chepstow, and is one that can gallop rewardingly all through the season.
The rider, seeing Wilshere, turned his animal, the musculature in the horse's hindquarters straining to be out on the gallop. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
A course with pretty stiff fences, it suits galloping horses and will expose horses who lack stamina.
Harness racing, pacing and trotting, are raced by standard-bred horses as opposed to thoroughbreds, who do the galloping.
Most scholarly speculation about what was going on in Carroll’s mind as he coined the word suggests galumph is an amalgam of gallop and triumphant. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
The horses of the dozen riders were lathered, as they galloped across the drawbridge and into the fortress.
In order to avoid that risk again, the jockey would have Spread the Word gallop for a mile or two before a race so as to exhaust it. The Mob and Me
After some confusion, the viscount and his followers mounted and galloped off in pursuit. LION IN THE VALLEY
He then leapt a fence and galloped over the hill deep into the field.
The rate of inflation in Bangladesh has galloped forward from under 2 in 2001 to above 6 in the recent year.
Amanda and Nikki and the other Fritton maidens galloped off in hopeful hot pursuit towards the lavatorial changing rooms. TICKLED PINK
It would further the galloping consolidation under way in a nascent industry. Times, Sunday Times
Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river. Chapter 7 - Part IX
The animals were all at work weeding turnips under the supervision of a pig, when they were astonished to see Benjamin come galloping from the direction of the farm buildings, braying at the top of his voice. Animal Farm
Thinking innocently that he wanted to shake it, I gave it to him freely, only to find it lashed with a leather thong and clamped between the stirrup and his foot as he spurred his horse into a gallop.
Croft galloped across the field and jumped the low hedge into the meadow.
Did you gallop the horse just now?
A similar danger recalled the intrepid prince to the defence of the front; and, as he galloped through the columns, the centre of the left was attacked, and almost overpowered by the furious charge of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In youth orchestras now we take technical brilliance and galloping energy for granted. Times, Sunday Times
The latter plan is the best, because the animal, side-hoppled, is able to go but little faster than a walk, while the front hopple permits him, after a little practice, to gallop off at considerable speed. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
At that moment the _escapado_ of the bull-ring caught sight of the two cows, and suddenly broke off into a gallop -- unfortunately, however, in a direction the very opposite to that which his rider desired him to take! The Tiger Hunter
With pulses atune to the morning's freshness, the girl galloped rapidly along the shell-road, the clattering thud of her horse's hoofs startling in the quiet. Diane of the Green Van
With inimitable style, Lovelace describes a stomach as “flopping like a halibut in an ice chest,” and rain falling on a roof “like a giant herd of tiny, tiny horses running circles of free-living gallop.” The OLM Blog
The pony, who is locked up so he won't founder, started galloping up and down the fenceline when I switched on the light.
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The horse started galloping the moment I gave it a good dig.
A few men arrive galloping out of the brush, cool atop their mounts, sporting cowboy hats and silver-and-gold Western-style belt buckles.
Kauto Star will have a racecourse gallop somewhere and that will put him spot on. Times, Sunday Times
The colt galloped away with his jockey and bolted over the hill. The Sun
Some of the men broke ranks in a furious gallop to the river where they gulped water in joyous abandon.
In a famous General Motors ad, a man clutches a briefcase while galloping bareback on a horse across open desert.
The best adrenaline rush I've ever had was when I went on a two-day trek through Belize in Central America and my horse went galloping out of control in the jungle.
Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technologies.
So while he was credited with the intention of bringing out Stabat Mater waltzes -- by no means a difficult feat with Rossini's work -- and a Dead March gallopade, we must never forget that he was the first conductor to introduce symphonic music to the masses and the authentic pioneer of the movement which Sir Henry Wood has carried on at the Queen's Hall for the last twenty years and more. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
I think about my teepee, my tomahawk, my stocky bay horse who is standing even now, a striped blanket thrown over his back, ready to gallop me over the plains, into the red and dusty West.
Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Also there were droves of smaller game -- rhebok and springbok and duikers -- which brushed past at full gallop without even noticing me. Prester John
It was a day of galloping gales, thick mists, columns of rain marching across the hills, drenching the pinewoods and the dreary fields.
Hazel just galloped faster, she was soaked… her hair was stuck to her face.
Her body stretched; her legs moved in a graceful, circular, galloping motion.
It has not exactly galloped, raced, or even trotted through the House, having had its first reading in June 2001-nearly 2 years ago.
That race was run in almost course record time despite the early gallop being steady. Times, Sunday Times
Witnesses told police they believed she was trying to slow the horse from an uncontrolled gallop when she fell, striking her head.
To playback sounds of galloping, roaring and trumpeting, the horses, lions and jumbos enthralled the parents who had a tough time to spot their tots in the masked group.
If a horse is galloping at speed, totally out of control and not responding to the rider's commands, the situation can be life threatening.
The God who gallops through divine places with the cherubim and seraphim is the same God who changed the world order by simply standing up and walking out of the tomb.
Thomas took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her "light-horse gallop of clish ma-claver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
He would exert himself more strenuously when working up his trainer's uphill gallop of a morning. Times, Sunday Times
He saw a great expanse of lush green meadow, where wild ponies galloped free and careless in its serenity.
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He needs a really good gallop and another race before the big day. The Sun
He went off at a hand-gallop, and then pulled back into a long darting kind of canter, which Bilbah thought was quite the thing for a journey -- anyhow, he never seemed to think of stopping it -- went on mile after mile as if he was not going to pull up this side of sundown. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
They heard hoofbeats and turned to see several armed men riding at a gallop towards them.
One way or another, it galloped in great leaps and bounds.
Here springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
Horses jammed the ford over the stream; Michael crossed above them, galloping slantwise across the slope after the belling pack, stretched low on his horse's neck to clear the branches.
The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.
Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
There was the old cellaret with nothing in it, lined with lead, like a sort of coffin in compartments; there was the old dark closet, also with nothing in it, of which he had been many a time the sole contents, in days of punishment, when he had regarded it as the veritable entrance to that bourne to which the tract had found him galloping. Little Dorrit
But he's fine now and will have a racecourse gallop next weekend. The Sun
Also, they put such an emphasis on a fine throatlatch that I think they are making a smaller wind pipe. A big loose-hanging windpipe has a lot to do with air-exchange, which makes these horses able to gallop so well.
Perhaps I have dozed a bit, for I must have turned the coin, unthinking, and now I see the reverse: a horseman, in full panoply, galloping, with naked sword brandished in his left hand, from which depends a severed head tight-clutched by long, flowing hair. The Lion's Brood
They then created day light when he appeared on the wing to gallop 30 yards to the corner.
The racecourse gallop got the freshness out of her. The Sun
As soon as the Percheron rocked into a huge gallop, Berndt realized that he would kill his horse if he continued. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The mint escaped the beds and started galloping toward the house, with the snow in summer in hot pursuit.
Early arrives saw the horses working on the gallops next to the racecourses at 9am.
Or maybe we could borrow some horses and go for a gallop? Times, Sunday Times
You horn-jawed, muck-faced jezebo of a sea-sculpin, you dare to yap out any more of that sculch and I'll come aboard you after we anchor and jump down your gullet and gallop the etarnal innards out of ye! Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
Missy and I remounted Jenny as I put Doc back in my shirt pocket, but I was afraid to ask Jenny to gallop as she was hurting so much.
Haafhd raced into second over three furlongs out and came galloping alongside Chorist to make his bid.
This looks sure to be run at a faster gallop. The Sun
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The next thing I knew, Sally and Bolt came galloping up behind us and passed us before she slowed him to a trot.

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