GALLANT in a Sentence

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For GALLANT, below is one of 68 sentences:
My child, Sherman has twice as many men as Johnston, and he can afford to lose two men for every one of our gallant laddies.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALLANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gallant
 a.  courtly; lively and spirited; having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  I am asking a sacrifice but a sacrifice so small compared with the sacrifices our gallant men in gray are making that it will seem laughably small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Ladies, there will pass among you two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and-- But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult of clapping hands and cheering voices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  And she knew it had not been Captain Butler's refinement that had prompted so gallant a gesture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He couldn't be when he's been mentioned in dispatches and when Colonel Sloan wrote that letter to Melly all about his gallant conduct in leading the charge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  My child, Sherman has twice as many men as Johnston, and he can afford to lose two men for every one of our gallant laddies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  And I am hurt, Scarlett, that you do not take my gallant sacrifice with better spirit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Every line of his slender body spoke of generations of brave and gallant men and Scarlett knew his war record by heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  He knew she had no such word in her vocabulary as gallantry, knew she would have stared blankly if he had told her she was the most gallant soul he had ever known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  He knew she would not understand how many truly fine things he ascribed to her when he thought of her as gallant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  But, for four years, he had seen others who had refused to recognize defeat, men who rode gaily into sure disaster because they were gallant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Because of your obstinacy, you may get yourself into a situation where your gallant fellow townsmen will be forced to avenge you by stringing up a few darkies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  A viewing of those gallant whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
13  Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
14  I go now to your gallant father, to hear his determination in matters of the last moment to the defense.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
15  "I have not sat down before Quebec, but an earthen work, that is defended by twenty-three hundred gallant men," was the laconic reply.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
Example Sentence:
1  Distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.
2  Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.
3  The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
4  The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
5  Despite fierce competition she made a gallant effort to win the first medal of the championships.
6  The new fighters behave gallantly under fire.