Example sentences for: gallop

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

  • As part of the mid-September festival at this shrine, there is a spectacular tournament of archery on horseback (yabusame), in which contestants dressed in the costume of Kamakura-period huntsmen must hit a series of three small wooden targets as they come down a narrow course at full gallop.

  • 2) Desormeaux and Baffert are lucky they lost the race outright, because if they'd won, Real Quiet would have been disqualified for interfering with Victory Gallop's run--and they'd be remembered for scandal, not just defeat.

  • Try the Latin aloud, the way it was meant to be read, and the hollow thump of a horse's gallop is in the sound as well as the meaning of Virgil's words.

  • The Rajputs made a belated alliance and fought valiantly from one desert fortress to another, but their elephants could not match their opponents’ fast horses and Afghan cavalry firing superior crossbows at the gallop.

  • If Hamm can score from 25 yards out on a shot struck with either foot on a full gallop, or tennis player Venus Williams can hit a serve 127 mph--faster than Andre Agassi was serving at Wimbledon this year--doesn't that force us to reconsider what it means to "play like a girl"?


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