Sentence examples for for a gauntlet from inspiring English sources

She filled her ice bucket and went looking for a gauntlet so as to avoid splinters.

The rules for a Gauntlet match are as follows: two wrestlers start the match with another entering at 2 minute intervals.

Examine shirt sleeve a couple of inches above the cuff for a gauntlet button.

The increase in events surrounding the festival has, however, turned it into a bit of a gauntlet for artists and observers alike.

He plays Trevor, who throws down his racial hatred and contempt for authority like a gauntlet to the social workers and halfway-house administrators who keep trying, with increasing exasperation, to find ways for the system to contain him.

And although the principle behind what has come to be known as the English landscape garden may seem self-evident to our modern sensibilities, it was actually quite radical for its time, a gauntlet thrown down before those schooled in the formal gardening of the French and Dutch styles that had prevailed for several centuries.

The tailor-made sleeve for lymphoedema with a gauntlet without protection at the edges and with extension to the shoulder is applied for the first four weeks of treatment.

An exceptional charge of €33m could be seen as a gauntlet for putative third party interest.

Another armed group, the Grandsons of the Prophet, took up positions on the opposite side, creating a gauntlet for the army.

Sometimes, to the nervousness of advisers, he says as much in public; a few days after oral arguments, he laid down a gauntlet for the Supreme Court, all but saying that striking down the law would be politically motivated judicial activism.

A blissfully unaware Rik Smits ambled into a hallway today only to find that an indignant Van Gundy had turned his honest replies about playing against Ewing into a gauntlet for the Knicks' aging and injured center.