Sentence examples for a sort of gauntlet from inspiring English sources

Rather, the very first note recorded — the long note that's the first of the keening five-note theme of "Dearly Beloved" — throws down a sort of gauntlet from Coltrane to Coltrane.

All real reactions, a sort of gauntlet you're forced to run to understand something you haven't yet thought or want to think about.

A: Sort of.

It is a weighty challenge - possibly the toughest in media sales - but the sort of gauntlet Howell will not be able to resist picking up when he bounds into ITV's Gray's Inn Road HQ for the first time.

At half an hour through our gauntlet, Amber had become a sort of de facto liaison between the group of women and me.

"A sort of dream.

A sort of aspic.

A sort of monster.

"A sort of blank".

(A sort of cognitive disonance).

A sort of adventure, maybe.