GALLOP in a Sentence

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For GALLOP, below is one of 217 sentences:
This man rode toward Balashev at a gallop, his plumes flowing and his gems and gold lace glittering in the bright June sunshine.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALLOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gallop
 v.  move or run rapidly or carelessly, as by a quadruped, particularly by a horse lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We'll gallop away like a breeze.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
2  Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
3  "Let anyone come my way now," thought Rostov driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
4  Only when approaching Bagration did Rostov let his horse gallop again, and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
5  Two of them rode side by side in front, at full gallop.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
6  At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in the smoke, Rostov hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where he was sent.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
7  Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
8  The general bowed his head respectfully, and the monarch mounted and rode down the street at a gallop.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
9  He came at a gallop, wearing a small hat, a blue uniform open over a white vest, and the St. Andrew ribbon over his shoulder.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
10  "Once she had missed it and turned it away, any mongrel could take it," Ilagin was saying at the same time, breathless from his gallop and his excitement.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
11  Nicholas put all his horses to a gallop and passed Zakhar.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
12  But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
13  This man rode toward Balashev at a gallop, his plumes flowing and his gems and gold lace glittering in the bright June sunshine.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
14  That Frenchman, by his uniform an officer, was going at a gallop, crouching on his gray horse and urging it on with his saber.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
15  Gently disengaging himself, the prince spurred his horse and rode down the avenue at a gallop.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  He is learning how to gallop the horse along the track.
2  If you gallop through your work, you are more likely to make mistakes.
3  Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technologies.
4  Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technology.
5  The horses galloped across the open plains.
6  Their hooves threw up clods of earth as they galloped across the field.
7  I galloped the horse along the track.