Sentence examples for trotting from inspiring English sources

So her protestations of ordinariness might all seem somewhat disingenuous – though it's refreshing to hear a pop megastar acknowledge concepts such as luck and chance, rather than grimly trotting out American dream cliches and Protestant work ethic myths – were it not for her own career decisions bearing it out.

Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.

It included videos of trotting horses from Sky News Arabia, a song by the Australian singer Gotye, and a BBC documentary from Somalia.

Smyth said: "I think the courts are trying to send out more of a warning signal that you can't continue to abuse the system by trotting along, making yourself bankrupt and hoping people don't look at the papers too readily – getting yourself made bankrupt here and after a few months going back to your original jurisdiction and leaving all of your problems behind".

We stopped for a breather and I stroked the dog who had been trotting at our heels.

But then writing about people as changeable, varied human beings requires thought, whereas trotting out gender cliches from the 17th century doesn't.

Half-way across the world in Florida, prospective student Steven McPhee, then a bartender with a penchant for solo globe-trotting, met with anthropology professor, Kate Detwiler at Florida Atlantic University.

Their entire business models now seem headed for the scrap heap.That model was pioneered by Macquarie, Australia's globe-trotting powerhouse, and involves putting an investment bank at the heart of a highly leveraged infrastructure-fund business, receiving big fees along the way.

Unlike France's 2008 presidency of the European Union, when his globe-trotting and war-mediating boosted his popularity, the G20 issues are technical and hard to explain to voters.

By the 1960s globe-trotting professors were so commonplace that they had become the butt of jokes.

To this, he has added his own blend of anti-globalisation, globe-trotting with the likes of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former trade-union leader, and dispatching representatives to the World Social Forum.