throw down the gauntlet
Example Sentences
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If anyone thought the Kings were hoping to stare across the ice, look the Oilers in the eyes and throw down the gauntlet, he wasn’t among them.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2024
Food Lifeline’s CEO, Linda Nageotte, says they didn’t move to a livable wage for the praise or to throw down the gauntlet for other nonprofits working in social and human services.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022
In a new study, published today in the journal Science Advances, scientists decided to really throw down the gauntlet.
From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2019
Its chair Maria Millerpromised she would "throw down the gauntlet to companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter".
From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2013
One of her critics, referring to the last sentence of the above edict, asks: "Do not these words throw down the gauntlet?"
From Court Life in China by Headland, Isaac Taylor
