GALLANT in a Sentence
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68 example sentences for GALLANT, such as:
1. A viewing of those gallant whales.
2. The new fighters behave gallantly under fire.
3. The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
4. Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.
5. And I am hurt, Scarlett, that you do not take my gallant sacrifice with better spirit.
2. The new fighters behave gallantly under fire.
3. The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
4. Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.
5. And I am hurt, Scarlett, that you do not take my gallant sacrifice with better spirit.
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Meanings and Examples of GALLANT
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gallant
a. lively and spirited
a. unflinching in battle or action
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 I am asking a sacrifice but a sacrifice so small compared with the sacrifices our gallant men in gray are making that it will seem laughably small.
2 Ladies, there will pass among you two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and-- But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult of clapping hands and cheering voices.
3 And she knew it had not been Captain Butler's refinement that had prompted so gallant a gesture.
4 He couldn't be when he's been mentioned in dispatches and when Colonel Sloan wrote that letter to Melly all about his gallant conduct in leading the charge.
5 My child, Sherman has twice as many men as Johnston, and he can afford to lose two men for every one of our gallant laddies.
6 And I am hurt, Scarlett, that you do not take my gallant sacrifice with better spirit.
7 Every line of his slender body spoke of generations of brave and gallant men and Scarlett knew his war record by heart.
8 He knew she had no such word in her vocabulary as gallantry, knew she would have stared blankly if he had told her she was the most gallant soul he had ever known.
9 He knew she would not understand how many truly fine things he ascribed to her when he thought of her as gallant.
10 But, for four years, he had seen others who had refused to recognize defeat, men who rode gaily into sure disaster because they were gallant.
11 Because of your obstinacy, you may get yourself into a situation where your gallant fellow townsmen will be forced to avenge you by stringing up a few darkies.
12 A viewing of those gallant whales.
13 Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread.
14 I go now to your gallant father, to hear his determination in matters of the last moment to the defense.
15 "I have not sat down before Quebec, but an earthen work, that is defended by twenty-three hundred gallant men," was the laconic reply.
Example Sentence:
1 Distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.
2 Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.
3 The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
4 The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
5 Despite fierce competition she made a gallant effort to win the first medal of the championships.
6 The new fighters behave gallantly under fire.