How to Use gallant in a Sentence

gallant

adjective
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  • The defenders of the fort made a gallant stand.
  • They failed to reach the summit, but they made a gallant attempt.
  • He greeted her with a gallant bow.
  • He offered her his seat in a gallant gesture.
  • The gallant knight charging to rescue the maiden from the scaly beast.
    — David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Was Mena better off among the dead, with the gallant portrait of him and the rumors of a hero’s death all that remained?
    — Elliot Ackerman, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Alas, the bill for this duo's gallant relief work comes due on Thursday.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The local team made a gallant stand against the visitors.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • The chances of the Spurs making a gallant stretch-run charge to the No. 6 seed remain remote, however.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • To this end that the wives and children of many dear and gallant friends were husbandless and fatherless?
    — WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Despite West’s gallant effort, the Celtics won the series in seven games.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • The author accepts the story of a wedding dress made out of bandages, of gallant kisses on small hands.
    — Catherine Merridale, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • That what those boys who had us as their slaves that’s your gallant heroes on these monuments remind us of.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 11 Mar. 2020
  • But Anaheim survived the rest of the power play, thanks to a gallant effort by Nate Thompson, who dived right in front of a grenade launched by Klefbom.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 22 June 2017
  • The lights are all up front, where the finished product of our toil goes marching by to gallant music, marching by to France and to glory and beyond.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Keach made a gallant attempt to soldier on through the 80-minute solo show about Ernest Hemingway.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Hughes had found a use for the gallant Locke: an entrée to the bold movement in black American writing then rumbling to life.
    — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • Boxed with 300 meters remaining, Thomas made a gallant late surge.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • There's taxidermy foxes, a mural of gallant foxes drinking beers and a wall of wooden Chevrons.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2020
  • More than 200 tuba players of all ages took the stage, while a gallant audience listened despite the dumping rain.
    — Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2020
  • There will be prizes for the most creative conqueror costume, most authentic ace costume and most gallant group.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Outsiders have been a joy: In 2002, Turkey and South Korea, a co-host, were gallant semifinalists.
    — George Vecsey, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
  • His gallant effort to advance man’s knowledge of the space that surrounds out earth should never be forgotten.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The recent reboot of the series hosted by Jordan Peele (also available) is a gallant effort but can't match the brilliance of the original.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Emboldened, Fisher this May has had two gallant missives directed at … a couple of gramps at least a decade his senior?
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2022
  • Magic and mayhem, ferocious beasts and gallant knights.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Sam Snead’s record sort of sailed beneath the radar for casual fans, not as glamorous or gallant as Jack Nicklaus’ gold standard of 18 major championships.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • One of her passengers, a gallant movie agent named John Reynolds, took advantage of the screen of dust being kicked up between car and cops to lift Anderson out of the driver’s seat and put himself behind the wheel, and stop the car.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • New heroes arrive, old friends depart, the Resistance lives on, and Carrie Fisher makes a gallant exit.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • At first, you'll be dazzled by Leo's sweeping chivalry and gallant romantic gestures.
    — The Astrotwins, Woman's Day, 4 Apr. 2017

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