gauntlet
Example Sentences
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Whether the indexes finally break through will likely be determined by this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting and a gauntlet of earnings reports.
From Barron's
"Burnham throws down gauntlet" reads the Sunday Times's headline, while the Sunday Mirror declares it "the battle for Labour".
From BBC
In Donne’s time, anyone who made it to adulthood would have survived a gauntlet of vicious microbes.
As he had with other patients, he ran Cormier through a gauntlet of tests.
From BBC
Musselman didn’t want to start that gauntlet coming off an extra four days away.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
