gauntlet

How To Use gauntlet In A Sentence

• His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
• D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
• No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
• The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
• The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need. Finnegans Wake
• Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
• With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact.
• Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
• Inmates at Buckley Hall Prison have to run a gauntlet of insults and racism from some members of staff.
• She flexed her wrists, feeling the leather gauntlets stretch and slide along her forearms.