Sentence examples for running a gauntlet from inspiring English sources

Running a gauntlet of fire, they fell in successfully with a rescue sortie.

Bad news: he can only escape by running a gauntlet while people fire arrows at him.

Initiation ceremonies include running a gauntlet and taking part in a voodooistic mock funeral and resurrection.

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

Meanwhile, foreign leaders and diplomats are running a gauntlet of protesters to meet with the president-elect, and finding that they are taking meetings not with Trump and foreign policy advisers, but surrounded by family members.

Abbott himself was meant to be the star billing but was unable to attend, leaving Kelly and New South Wales senator Jim Molan to occupy centre stage, after running a gauntlet of about 100 demonstrators who turned up to protest against the Liberal party's lack of policy on climate change.

But some Timorese had to run a gauntlet of rattan canes.

The bridesmaids and groomsmen ran a gauntlet of glow sticks as they were introduced.

Every day I run a gauntlet of meetings, concert rehearsals and parties.

The bike lane that runs through Leytonstone is just one such example, forcing cyclists to run a gauntlet of oncoming cars, confusing traffic lights and wandering shoppers.

To get to our site outside Canada House we had to run a gauntlet of jeers: "traitors", "cowards", "scum" and other epithets were hurled in our direction.