Example sentences for: gallant

How can you use “gallant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yet, unlike Le Carré, Gallant does not believe in plot, or in speculating on the meaning of her stories.

  • Later, living in Paris, Gallant took up the Jamesian theme of innocents abroad, though she sometimes sketched her expatriates with the quicker, more economical strokes of a Hemingway.

  • To that Europe, Gallant brought a new bemused realism and an acquaintance with such petty facts as train schedules and plumbing.

  • The designs of the war years had been stamped with a certain gallant jauntiness and comic quirkiness, expressed in restricted amounts of fabric.

  • Gallant's stories of men and women--and these include a few tales of trusting men let down by untrustworthy women--follow a basic pattern: Someone (possessing a naiveté perhaps reminiscent of the 27-year-old who ran off to Paris to write) offers someone else his or her love and is let down, but still manages to get up in the morning for the next several decades.


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