Sentence examples for opening gauntlet from inspiring English sources

Adam Peaty threw down an impressive opening gauntlet, breaking his own world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke, meaning an 18-year wait for men's gold in the pool could soon be over.

On the June 14 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hardy entered the 2012 Bound for Glory Series, taking part in the opening gauntlet match, from which he was the first man eliminated by Bully Ray.

On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Angle entered the 2012 Bound for Glory Series, taking part in the opening gauntlet match, from which he was eliminated by Daniels.

The Danes had thrown down the gauntlet, opening up by a length on Australia at halfway, and the British took time to find top gear.

In her peevishly hilarious third novel, Karen Karbo throws down the gauntlet in her opening paragraph: "I am a terrible mother.

Well, as if picking up a gauntlet thrown down by Ms. Coppola, the opening scene of Mr. Adjmi's "Marie Antoinette" features plates of colorful macaroons.

It often feels that opening a newspaper in the morning is closer to running a gauntlet than catching up on latest events.

Opening up the computer screen was easy enough, but I soon learned that my gauntlets had rendered the trackpad useless.

In a BBC Proms Insight event last Sunday (which feels like months ago), Tom Service described the Ring as ending with an open question, a gauntlet for mankind: now the gods have dwindled and our heroes lie dead on the pyre, what will we make of the world we've inherited?

I'd been hearing about the First Avenue Pizza Gauntlet ever since my ear canals opened up, two weeks after I was born in the tunnel under the East River.

But only after a gauntlet of community board meetings could they open their restaurant, the Park.