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• She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter.2011, Marie Claire Peck, Rocking Horse Ranch, page 40. From the entry rein
• Exhausted, I canter through postpandrial naps atop a Senegalese camel, and in full beau geste.2006, Louise Mushikiwabo with Jack Kramer, Rwanda Means the Universe, St. Martins Press, page 143. From the entry belle sabreuse
• Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs.1957, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association. From the entry coon
• The capataz of the batey gang, a tall flushed Jamaican negro, passed on a cantering white pony.1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Cytherea. From the entry capataz
• Purdy tucked the pigskin under his elbow and cantered over a dog-pile for a tally.1921 November 19, The Nebraska State Journal, page 3. From the entry dogpile
• Half a dozen cowboys cantered up the main street of Los Portales in a cloud of dust.1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 8, in A Man Four-Square. From the entry paint the town red
• He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent.1919, F. St. Mars, The Way of the Wild. From the entry marram
• “When an artist becomes pop, it’s because the people choose it,” she says, now speaking at a canter.2019 June 28, Michael Cragg, “Meet Rosalía”, in The Guardian. From the entry at a canter
• She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.2013, Mary Hart Perry, Seducing the Princess. From the entry crop
• The pace of travel picked up from walking to a tight-rein trot, then to a little loping canter for short distances.2006, Howard Jones, Dakotaland: Tales of the Territory, page 162. From the entry throw-off
• "We've got to get the guys muscled up first," explains Byrnes, "or somebody's back will go out when we canter."1983 (Jan 17), Julia Vitullo-Martin, "Back in the Saddle Again", New York Magazine 16(3): 51. From the entry muscled up
• Five minutes later, Martland and his gauleiters canter in and whisk poor Hockbottle off to the Cottage Hospital of evil fame.1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 30. From the entry gauleiter
• Cavalletti allow more demands to be made on the legs without compromising the quality of the gaits, namely walk, trot, and canter.2018, Ingrid Klimke, Reiner Klimke, Cavalletti for Dressage and Jumping, →ISBN. From the entry cavalletto
• As his second-in-command cantered away, Johnson looked back down the column, thinking of the boy and the men he’d dispatched to look for him.2014, James McGee, chapter 4, in The Blooding, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry the devil take the hindmost
• At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry dog cart
• He would be available as a chaperon for the feminine division, as he did not intend to do more than canter a mile or two after the throw-off.2020, Rolf Boldrewood, Babes in the Bush. From the entry throw-off

Meaning of canter

1. noun A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.
2. noun A ride on a horse at such speed.
3. verb To move at such pace.

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How do you use canter in a sentence?

Canter is used as a noun and verb. For example: “From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.”

What is a short sentence with canter?

“From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.”

What does canter mean?

Canter means a gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.