Example sentences for: trotted

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

  • They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's futility: Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.

  • I trotted out the legendary biographies known to every practitioner of the trade--biography lore: Leon Edel's 20-year labor on his five-volume Henry James ("How long, Leon, how long?"

  • The Internet is predictably trotted out as one of the myriad of causes of the glossies' decline.

  • An array of editorials in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Spain trotted out much the same arguments: Hanging Ocalan would ignite more Kurdish violence in Turkey and further strain Turkey's relations with the countries of the European Union, which it wants to join.

  • Howard Kurtz's media column in the Washington Post reveals that the West Virginia truck driver trotted out by Democrats just over a week ago as a specimen of the kind of person who would most benefit from the Clinton tax plan has a swastika tattoo on his arm.


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