How to use gauntlet in a sentence

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• He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.From the entry take up the gauntlet
• Cuphead is a difficult gauntlet through a ton of bosses, from evil clowns to bossy queen bees.2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18…. From the entry bossy
• The iron gauntlet on the beastkeeper’s scarred arm glowed when he touched it.2016, Shae Ford, Harbinger (Fate’s Forsaken Series; 1), →ISBN, page 148. From the entry beastkeeper
• In those days, we didn’t have security and we’d have to run the gauntlet.2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian. From the entry sign of the times
• Some rows of helmets, some of platelegs, bodyplates, gauntlets and boots.2012, Daniel Cade, The Last Pure Warrior, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry bodyplate
• Body armor, gauntlets, armored hose,and possibly a doublet would be added to this.2010, Randall Fegley, The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of France Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302, McFarland…. From the entry goedendag
• Thorin reached out for the vambrace and gauntlet that made up the armour's right arm.2003, John Marco, The Devil's Armour, 2010, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page. From the entry vambrace
• (vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section.2003, Alan R. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern…. From the entry manifer
• Suddenly my father was dead and the gauntlet was passed to my oldest brother.2003, Darren Greer, Tyler's Cape, page 120. From the entry monkey paw
• It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry take up the gauntlet
• The barbut helmet and right gauntlet are contemporary, but do not belong; the left gauntlet is modern.1973, The Scottish Art Review. From the entry barbut
• A pair of bell-cuffed gauntlets and an arming sword hang outside.1933, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. From the entry hounskull
• Below this pasguard again was worn over the left gauntlet a large manifer, or main de fer.1911, Henry Charles Howard Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, page 259. From the entry pasguard
• Itosu wielded an ōdachi, greaves, and gauntlets.2018 August 20, C. R. Jenerette, chapter 7, in Elementium, Bloomington, Ind.: Abbott Press, →ISBN. From the entry ōdachi
• If the phrase "family-friendly festival" induces a series of yawns and "mehs" from you and yours, consider the gauntlet thrown.2017 July 29, Stephanie Smittle, “Itchy-O to close Hot Water Hills Festival”, in Arkansas Times. From the entry mehs
• She would throw down the gauntlet in anything she said.2016, Bev Jafek, “The Beginning: The Sacred Beasts”, in The Sacred Beasts, Fairfield, Calif.: Bink Books, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry provocatrice
• Note in (A) the curious leather gauntlets, the plate (or cuirbouly) knee guards and the tall open helmet (bascinet).1931, Dorothy Hartley, Mediæval Costume and Life: A Review of Their Social Aspects Arranged Under Various Classes and Workers with…. From the entry cuirbouly
• Finally the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today?1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 449. From the entry recur
• Nathusius’ pipistrelle bat may also be troubled by having to run a growing gauntlet of offshore wind farms on their migration from continental Europe.2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian. From the entry Nathusius's pipistrelle
• Soldiers always rode out armed from head to foot—but only a novice or an overeager squire rode in his helmet or gauntlets.2013, Miles Cameron, The Red Knight, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry barbute
• My screenplays address a variety of upbeat as well as spinous issues, including family dysfunction, physical abuse, and the unknown gauntlet of the wild.2011, Yancey Banks, “Profile”, in Stage 32. From the entry spinous
• Once in custody it got worse — systematic beatings, breaking people's glasses in their faces, mace at close range, stompings, and gauntlets to run.2009, William Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist, page 184. From the entry stomping
• And there's still no better way to throw down the fitness gauntlet than to roll up your sleeves and unveil some powerful guns.2005, Joe Kita, editor, Men's Health Best: Arms, page 6. From the entry guns
• They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.2001, Roger A. Bruns, The Damndest Radical … Ben Reitman, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry blacksnake
• After some fumbling he got rid of the brassets on his forearms and their attached gauntlets, and then the cuirass with its little chain sleeves.1953, Lyon Sprague De Camp, The Continent Makers: And Other Tales of the Viagens. From the entry brasset
• Chamoisette glove samples for spring show some very swagger styles with gauntlet tops and turnover cuffs piped and embroidered with harmonious contrasts.1922, Women's Wear, Toronto, volume 6, page 51. From the entry turnover
• The half-noble of the same date has a rough indication of a coudière, with mail brassarts or hauberk sleeve, and a gauntlet.1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, page 163. From the entry coudière
• The remark stung Cattaraugus to the quick, and he called Catiline a catapult; this infuriated Catiline beyond endurance, and he threw down the gauntlet and called Cattaraugus a catso.1992 [1880], Mark Twain, “A Cat-Tale”, in Louis Budd, editor, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays. From the entry catso
• As elsewhere, contact was maintained by means of fleet-footed messengers, known as cossids, who took their lives in their hands running the gauntlet with secret despatches concealed on them.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 221. From the entry cossid
• In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor.1962 June 15, “Politics: Passion, Pageantry & Platform”, in Time, volume LXXIX, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry slings and arrows
• Then we threw down a gauntlet to the mams, dads, nains and taids of Wales to see where they go to treat their kids to some really good, tasty food.2015 July 15, Lorna Doran, “The best places for kids to eat in Wales - as recommended by YOU”, in WalesOnline, archived from the original…. From the entry nain
• Western kids often wore what they called “garbage mitts”—padded for heavy duty by city workers—instead of hockey gloves; Maritimers used their father’s work gauntlets, with heavy leather up the wrists.1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77. From the entry garbage mitt

Meaning of gauntlet

1. noun Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
2. noun A long glove covering the wrist.
3. noun A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

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How do you use gauntlet in a sentence?

Gauntlet is used as a noun. For example: “He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.”

What is a short sentence with gauntlet?

“Itosu wielded an ōdachi, greaves, and gauntlets.”

What does gauntlet mean?

Gauntlet means protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.