Example sentences for: gallant

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

  • Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.

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

  • This last gift of observation, Gallant explains in the introduction to her huge new Collected Stories , dates back to a bifurcated childhood:

  • By Gallant's own admission in the introduction, she composes with an eye to craft, not the deeper heart of a story.

  • Often, Gallant keeps the plot to a minimum, merely visiting her characters several times over a span of years.


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