Example sentences for: gallant

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

  • If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.

  • If arithmetic is the measure, Gallant must be the quintessential New Yorker fiction writer.

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

  • A Gallant character who cultivates decadent aristocratic airs or tries too hard to hold on to Puritan freshness is at best a self-punishing neurotic, at worst a fool.

  • A quick rundown, then, of her long and impressive career: It begins in Quebec, where Gallant was born and lived till the age of 27.


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