gallant

Example Sentences

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On the way to a fancy ball, his gallant attempt to guide his date past a fetid puddle ends with him splashing her “from head to foot with that filthy water.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

From BBC • May 1, 2025

I couldn’t help but wonder if Williams was hiding a less gallant backstory.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Anything else was unthinkable against a gallant but limited side ranked 64th in the world and without a point in this Uefa Nations League Group B2.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

From the classroom, someone turned the radio on: gallant Biafran soldiers were completing a mopping-up operation in a sector Ugwu did not hear clearly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie