How to Use gallop in a Sentence

gallop

1 of 2 verb
  • I grabbed my books and galloped out the door.
  • He mounted his horse and galloped off to sound the alarm.
  • The horse galloped toward us.
  • She galloped her horse toward us.
  • The program gallops through early American history.
  • But the cast gallops right past the clichés.
    — Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The race-horses who gallop here in summer are snug in their stalls.
    — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
  • Porter did the rest and galloped his way down the middle of the field to give the Lancers the lead.
    — J.l. Kirven, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The reins were loosened and the horse began to gallop and flare its nostrils.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • There’s no pressure to gallop off into the sunset full speed ahead.
    — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Wild horses gallop through the rolling sand dunes and graze at Stafford Field.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Royal had been raised at a fox-hunting club, galloping hard over fields and fences.
    — Elizabeth G. Rowan, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Wild horses roam free, galloping along the seaside crests of rocky hills.
    — Benjamin Lowy, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Or that your spouse needs help controlling the reigns; or that your daughter loves to gallop.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Active at night, the bats gallop along the ground, approaching their prey on all fours.
    — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • In the play’s climax, the hero is stripped naked and lashed to a horse, which is sent galloping across the stage.
    — Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But in Hong Kong, the races gallop on with strict precautions in place.
    — Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
  • In the horse-centric culture of the Pampas, her first idea is to gallop hard.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Could Gish-galloping AI make things worse?
    — Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • There are always dark horses that gallop up out of nowhere, and schedules can change during the best of times.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The horses are galloping freely.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Marchand galloped up left wing and zipped home his second goal of the night with a hard snap off the left wing that banged in off the far post.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Christian galloped toward the men, jumped and embraced them in delight.
    — Mark Gray, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Gazelle galloped to the stage next and talked in their clue package about facing adversity as a child.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The poor beleaguered horse would gallop and kick; the monkey would scream; the audience would roar.
    — Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Mustangs gallop to a ninth region title in the last 11 years.
    — Josh Bean | [email protected], al, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Mercy wasn’t the only fan of the single’s galloping beat and catchy chorus.
    — Hilary Hughes, EW.com, 11 May 2020
  • No jacked-up, galloping warriors wielding bow and arrow.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The horses gallop and rear with such realism and frenzy the viewer feels compelled to jump out of the way.
    — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Bailey, Raven and Elmer galloped over and through about 10 inches of snow.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2020

gallop

2 of 2 noun
  • The horse was at full gallop.
  • He mounted his horse and took off at a gallop.
  • We went for a gallop through the countryside.
  • Over time the agreements slowed the arms race from a gallop to a jog.
    — Jessica T. Mathews, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2020
  • On the gallop out the horse still looked loaded and passed the winner.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • But this was a straight-line story of a dream taking off in full gallop.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 July 2021
  • Huge gallop out in last; gets two turns today; will improve lots.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Then, in sync, the herd turns 90 degrees and gallops out of the frame.
    — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Moose are even bigger at a gallop, and this one was galloping right at us!
    — Dara Dokas, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Then the bay colt breaks into a gallop, running smoothly along the rail.
    — Danielle Lerner, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The horses abruptly turned and, at full gallop, returned to the barn.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The remaining gaits are the walk and gallop and are used to study a horse’s motion, physics, and style.
    — Megan Woodward, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Because the words are the same as before, the passage gets taken in faster, in a gallop of fear and flight.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But some simply ran out of gas, meaning their all-out sprints had become little more than a gallop or a jog.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2022
  • One of them trotted out toward us in a playful gallop, like a child’s puppy chasing a ball.
    — Anton Money, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Twenty years later, the horse won’t start without a 20-minute gallop.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Also on Friday, the training track will be open for gallops in the morning.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Hudson chimed in with some soaring ad libs of her own before the song shifted from a blues shuffle to a full gallop.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
  • So on Friday morning, Gorder had her gallop on the muddy track.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018
  • Ran a closing second last out at five furlongs on turf to miss by only ¾ of a length and passed the winner on the gallop out.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • Luebbe was untouched during his 70-yard gallop and the Panthers took the lead.
    — James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 26 May 2020
  • Derick Coulanges added the next two scores, headlined by a 30-yard gallop.
    — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • This is the kind of show that gets your heart racing—that starts at a trot and builds almost immediately to a gallop.
    — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Production itself was a 16-day gallop through the streets of New York.
    — David Ketterer Spencer, IndieWire, 25 June 2026
  • Nine One One was in the stretch 12 days ago and made a nice late move to run third and on the gallop out pass the winner.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • New projects throughout the region continued being built and still more are being planned now, but the pace has dropped from a gallop to a trot.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2026
  • To maneuver in the water, hippos push themselves off the bottom of rivers or just walk around on the floor of the river by a unique gallop.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
  • To help absorb shock as the horse walks, trots, or gallops, a triangular and highly elastic hoof-part called a frog sits on the sole of the hoof.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
  • Harry Barlow, a speedster from England, caught the last one at full gallop and raced in for the winning try.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2021
  • Thanks to a perfect ball from Wilson, Milne was able to come down with the 78-yard catch and gallop for a touchdown.
    — Joseph Salvador, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2020

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