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:

An e-mail address and a phone number invite viewers to take up the gauntlet and become involved.
Its very first sentence throws down the moral gauntlet: "Six months after leading NATO into a 78-day air war campaign to stop 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo and serving notice that it would not let such human-rights atrocities go unchallenged again, the Clinton administration has decided to limit its military role."
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.
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."