Words similar to gauntlet

Example sentences for: gauntlet

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

Anyway, as soon as a generation of artists or connoisseurs declares for one, the gauntlet is dropped, and the next will plumb for the other.
It urged the department to become a lead agency in driving a national counterterrorism strategy forward, to "champion a national effort to take up the gauntlet that international terrorists have thrown at our feet."
In the event that someone does take up the McHugh gauntlet and seeks your support, I think it is important that you, that mailers not just blindly endorse a bill simply because its title includes the phrase "postal reform."
Ingolia throws down the gauntlet with a simple hypothesis about why the von Dassow network is so robust.
The gauntlet's down, says ABC: Just Say Yes.