gallant

Example Sentences

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Our response was gallant, but that's not what we want to be, we don't want to be a responding team.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Especially moving in “Neptune’s Fortune” is the insight and empathy Mr. Sancton brings to his consideration of the book’s bedeviled but oddly gallant protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

A history of gallant women is the history of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

"We have lost a gallant son of the soil!"

From BBC • May 1, 2025

He made a gallant show of it, riding a spirited red courser whose mane was the same copper color as the long hair that streamed past Ser Addam's shoulders.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin