GAIT in a Sentence

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For GAIT, below is one of 32 sentences:
She stood aside, smiling silently, while he entered, and then moved away from him with something soft and flowing in her gait.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gait
 n.  manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving; walk; rate of moving
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  She stood aside, smiling silently, while he entered, and then moved away from him with something soft and flowing in her gait.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  By the time she caught sight of the Leyden house, she was beginning to pant, for her stays were tightly laced, but she did not slow her gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  On days that were bright and clear the two could be seen riding down Peachtree Street, Rhett reining in his big black horse to keep pace with the fat pony's gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
7  It was not Lily's fault if Mrs. Dorset's complicated attitudes did not fall in with the Duchess's easy gait.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  They strolled with the half-dancing gait of lovers, kicking their feet out sideways or shuffling a dragging jig, and the concrete walk sounded to the broken two-four rhythm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  She looked at him once, recklessly, and walked away with a serene gait that was a disordered flight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  A peculiar walk in this old man, a certain slight but painful appearing yawing in his gait, had at an early period of the voyage excited the curiosity of the mariners.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
11  She liked the rapid gait at which they spun along, and the quick, sharp sound of the horses' hoofs on the hard road.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
12  On the march he went along with the stride of a hunter, objecting to neither gait nor distance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  White-necked and white-bosomed, all had great roving eyes, the gait of peacocks, and hair reaching to the waist.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
14  She walked with a slightly rolling gait, but even that suited her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  Alpatych, mastering his offended feelings, kept pace with Rostov at a gliding gait and continued to impart his views.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  The lame man walked with an uneven gait.