How To Use Gantlet In A Sentence
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As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
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To do that, however, they must run a gantlet of seismic and magnetic sensors buried along the border.
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We spun, whizzed, dashed, leaped, "cavorted;" we did whatever a birch running the gantlet of whirlpools and breakers may do, except the fatal finality of a somerset.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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It's almost impossible to get to the end of the gantlet without being branded a criminal.
Senate Adjusts Rules, But Keeps Filibuster
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I claim it has to be "gantlet," and he of course says, "yo mama!
The State of Things
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Now, these folks should be fun to interview, but in order to get to them one must circumvent a gantlet of corporate shills with their characteristic high-viscosity personalities.
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It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las Vegas Hilton, and no officer has been charged.
Tailhook: Throwing Down the Gantlet
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At one stage in the hiring process, I went through a gantlet of nearly a full day of interviews with Sierra Club Board members and senior staff.
Michael Brune: Thanks, Carl
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The elite take great pains and pride in priming their bodies and minds for the grueling six-month gantlet required of a brutal, collision sport.
Training season: Shape guru helps Bush, L.T. prime
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A gantlet is a flogging ordeal, literally or figuratively.
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Just to cover the story in Baghdad journalists had first to survive the five-mile trip between Baghdad International Airport and the capital, a road known as “Route Irish,” which was a gantlet of suicide bombers and rocket attacks during the first two years of the war.
The Longest War
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The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.
The Garden Gloves Come Off
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To clicking shutters, the Fly Girls strut the gantlet with chests out.
Fly Girls: TV series follows flight attendants at home and in the air
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The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.
The Garden Gloves Come Off
