gallant

Example Sentences

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France scored five tries to win 36-14, but it could have been even uglier for Ireland had they not summoned what head coach Andy Farrell called a "gallant" second-half display.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

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

It is alive, it exists, you know people who are gallant, have witnessed gallantry and understand at this point that it is deeply countercultural.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

During one futile counterattack, “the French infantry made a gallant show, advancing across the Belgian beet fields with colors unfurled and bugles sounding the shrill notes of the ‘charge.’

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman