How to use gallop in a sentence

Examples of gallop by meaning

More sentences with gallop

• The horse broke into a gallop as they neared the barn.From the entry break into
• On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 197. From the entry gapsite
• She took every fence at a gallop, she flung her heart over, Devil take the hindmost.1986 September, Valerie Sherwood [pseudonym; Jeanne Hines], chapter 5, in Nightsong, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry devil take the hindmost
• Spurring his horse, he galloped down to the shore and bespoke them.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23. From the entry bespeak
• They cannot be dreamy Daniels, they cannot be spasmodic — gallop one half-hour, and slacken the next.1940, Jack Hilton, English Ways: A Walk from the Pennines to Epsom Downs in 1939, page 177. From the entry dreamy Daniel
• "Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19. From the entry post-chaise
• Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.1935, Leonard Barnes, Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record, Peter Davies, page 22. From the entry voluble
• For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey.2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me. From the entry footsie
• Your heart gallops, your blood rushes, and, if you're Benjamin Franklin, you don't like it one little bit.2012, Mark Forsyth, The Horologicon, →ISBN. From the entry curglaff
• SUSAN: Have you ever had a gallop on lionback?2012 May 28, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry lionback
• They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266. From the entry bam
• She tied the insulated care package to her pommel and waving goodbye to Natielle she kicked Honeygirl into a gallop.2006, Beverly Sheets Goodwin, Arizona Macgregor, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry honeygirl
• Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14. From the entry trot
• The “field” galloped by me in one-hundredth of a second.1996, Jeffery Camp, “[Still and Fast Life] Race Horses”, in Paint: A Manual of Pictorial Thought and Practical Advice, New York, N.Y.: DK…. From the entry blundery
• DYSART: You won't gallop any more, Alan.1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 35”, in Equus, page 109. From the entry gee-gees
• In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop.2005, Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, “35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases”…. From the entry diastole
• Whenever you're positive–just positive!–you know where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction.1998 September 23, Tom De Haven, “Stephen King, Bag of Bones [book review]”, in Entertainment Weekly, New York, N.Y.: Entertainment…. From the entry narratively
• The horse had galloped over the sand-ridge to the beach and there pulled up, nostrils quivering at an insult to its trained intelligence.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 217. From the entry pull up
• This horse and rider, with their free, rhythmical gallop, were the only moving things to be seen on the face of the flat country.1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. From the entry inevitable
• To rile their professors, South Carolina students staged 'blackrides,' when they blackened their faces, stole the horses of faculty, and galloped about campus while holding flaming torches.2019, Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson's Education, page 97. From the entry blackride
• He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry turn of foot
• Only when a pronghorn stretches into a gallop does the humerus appear to be swinging freely, and then the hoof travels several yards with each stride.2009, John A. Byers, Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn, page 6. From the entry pronghorn
• With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead.2007, Rick Atkinson, The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy, page 181. From the entry ululant
• He warmed over the remains of last night's coffee, ate a beef sandwich, and then continued on toward Cheyenne, the mount readily taking the gallop asked of him.1994, Norah Hess, Sage, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, pages 336–337. From the entry warm over
• A gallant, be-breeched gentleman, the hemispheres of his Bedford Cords flapping gloriously in rhythm with the lope of his mount, galloped by us footsloggers on Salisbury Plain.1940 December 27, Harold Baldwin, “A Plague o’ All Your Breeches”, in The Leader-Post, volume XXXII, number 295, Regina, Sask., page four. From the entry be-breeched
• Not often did Jesse James leave a clew to his identity when he galloped away from a crime of violence, back into the mysterious Nowhere whence he came.1926, Robertus Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, University of Nebraska, published 1990. From the entry clew
• The 'throw-off' was at one o'clock, and the gallop lasted more than two hours and a half, so that the fox had a very long run.1903, Émile Zola, Rome, page 306. From the entry throw-off
• Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.1947 July 26, Jim Marshall, “Glamor Hits the Range”, in Walter Davenport, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: The…. From the entry near-by

Meaning of gallop

1. noun The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
2. noun An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
3. noun An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

Full definition of gallop

More about gallop

• Meaning of gallop
• Plural of gallop
• Gallop in Tamil
• Gallop in Urdu
• Gallop in Bengali
• Gallop in Telugu

Questions about gallop in a sentence

How do you use gallop in a sentence?

Gallop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The horse galloped past the finishing line.”

What is a short sentence with gallop?

“to gallop a horse”

What does gallop mean?

Gallop means the fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.