canter

How to use canter in a sentence

He shook Nejdi into a canter, drew his sword, and looked keenly ahead for the first sign of those who would bar his path.

It would have been great fun, if I had not been afraid papa would catch cold, and he said we would canter on to the inn.

"But that needn't keep us from the saddle," Mollie decided, as they watched the two men canter swiftly away.

We again took a large circle, and at a good canter approached each other till we were nearly within spear's-length.

He readily purchased the salt, but learned, to his consternation, that the march to Burkesville was a mere preliminary canter.

Herbert fell into a long study, his eyes fixed on the way that was gliding by under their merry canter.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

As the fugitives broke into a trot, the pursuers quickened their pace to a slow canter.

OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST

Having eluded their pursuers, the Sioux drew the ponies to an easy canter and continued toward the north.

THREE SIOUX SCOUTSELMER RUSSELL GREGOR

I do not know what art he used; all I can say is that in a half hour he brought Satan back in a canter.

Then the sun came up and the day began, and one could canter up to the front of the column, clear of the dust.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985