gallantly
IPA: gˈæɫʌntɫi
adverb
- In a gallant or gentlemanly manner; with social graces.
- In a brave or valiant manner.
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Examples of "gallantly" in Sentences
- He took my elbow and assisted me a bit more gallantly during the last mile.
- When she stepped out the exit where Juan was gallantly manning the door, she pecked him on the cheek.
- The captain led gallantly to the attack, but was bowled over by a chunk of coal that burst on his head in black baptism.
- They suffer nosebleeds when taken down and, though gallantly fighting off the inevitable, meet their doom with a triple tap.
- We were called to dinner and Nelson gallantly stepped up between us and took both our arms to escort us into the dining room.
- Nadi defended the provincial title gallantly despite the odds stacked them silencing the rugby pundits who had predicted a Nadroga victory.
- "How is that?" he asked, "_I_ knew _you_ from your photograph -- once seen not to be forgotten again," gallantly -- "but how should you know me?"
- "gallantly," as was indeed to be expected in a country whose chief industry was fishing and which was so admirably surrounded by natural bays and harbors.
- The Grammy winner, 30, botched the lyrics, mistakenly singing "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming."
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