Sentence examples for gauntlet a from inspiring English sources

At almost the same spot where Roosevelt threw down his gauntlet, a hotel was erected in 1905.

By Richard Cohen The New Yorker, October 4 , 1993P. 70 Talk story about Dan Kopka, 24, a master bodypiercer at the Gauntlet, a salon on 5th Ave .in Chelsea.

According to AAR principal investigator Richard Reiff, if laboratory tests prove successful and Wooh can develop a promising prototype for rail-defect detection, he can test it on the Gauntlet, a stretch of track containing more than 50 defects at the AAR's Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colo.

Having recently split the U.N. Security Council by throwing down the gauntlet (a glove used as a challenge, not to be confused with gantlet, a lane of punishment, as in "to run the gantlet" -- ah, skip it; sometimes distinctions ask too much), the Quai d'Orsay seems to have moved away from Vedrine's term.

Mary Schoolcraft wrote The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina, in which, Parker suggests, there is a character with an opium addiction modeled on Jane (42).

Having run this gauntlet, a team of attractive young women and men would then meet them, greet them, press drinks into their hands and conduct them to the company of their fellow celebrities.

Your first year of law school is a gauntlet -- a pride swallowing, misery causing, siege.

There's a spell-absorbing gauntlet and a quest and a lot of monsters.

It depicts McClellan dressed in his Union Army military uniform, including gauntlets, a hat, sash and sword, while riding a horse.

Mass challenges at the polls bog the process down, creating excessive and confrontational lines that make voting a gauntlet rather than a civic rite.

On the December 26 Raw, CM Punk was defeated by Dolph Ziggler in a gauntlet match; as a result Ziggler became the number one contender to the WWE Championship.