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

She smiled at him as they hauled themselves up it—a brief flash of teeth, effortful but gallant—and tried to wring the water from her clothes.

From Literature

Similarly, not all Faithfuls are gallant, as is confirmed by Michael Rapaport’s rabid behavior.

From Salon

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

“While this is all very gallant of you, I can assure you that your girlfriend will be fine.”

From Literature