gantlet
IPA: gˈɔntɫʌt
noun
- Alternative spelling of gauntlet [Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.]
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Examples of "gantlet" in Sentences
- Gantlet it is, for the rail usage.
- Thank you for choosing to run the gantlet.
- Also agree in making a separate article on Gantlet Track.
- A gantlet is a flogging ordeal, literally or figuratively.
- Anyways both gantlet and gandulet are the same in pronunciation.
- I claim it has to be "gantlet," and he of course says, "yo mama!"
- To clicking shutters, the Fly Girls strut the gantlet with chests out.
- "It's almost impossible to get to the end of the gantlet without being branded a criminal."
- At one stage in the hiring process, I went through a gantlet of nearly a full day of interviews with Sierra Club Board members and senior staff.
- It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las Vegas Hilton, and no officer has been charged.
- Just to cover the story in Baghdad journalists had first to survive the five-mile trip between Baghdad International Airport and the capital, a road known as “Route Irish,” which was a gantlet of suicide bombers and rocket attacks during the first two years of the war.