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.
Should you manage to lay hands on a ticket, you have to run a gauntlet of burly security guards and pass through an airport metal detector to get to your seat.
An e-mail address and a phone number invite viewers to take up the gauntlet and become involved.
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."
The gauntlet's down, says ABC: Just Say Yes.