Example sentences for: trotted

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

  • But the contemporary meaning of athletics was reiterated on every Bob Hope TV special, when he trotted out a herd of college football stars to boost the war in Vietnam.

  • Newsweek trotted out not one but two illustrations of old opium smokers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Post mentions the outcome of the August 14 Iowa straw poll, but doesn't say that McCain thumbed his nose at it and trotted off to New Hampshire instead.


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