gallop - use in sentences

Object

  • round: He woke the neigbour's donkey and galloped round the field.
  • horse: Stanford wanted to find out whether all four legs of a galloping horse ever left the ground at the same time.
  • inflation: In a country with galloping inflation, presently at 411 percent, none of us ever seem to have enough money.
  • track: Course - Rowley: A wide, galloping track with a stiff finish.
  • past: We just keep galloping past in front of them " .

Preposition: at

  • speed: The cavalry had gone and Sir William Waller himself had galloped away at full speed down the Bristol road.

Modifying Another Word

  • away: LOL Roni just to say a belated ' well done ' on your 3rd star - you're galloping away toward your 4th already!
  • forward: Then, showing great vision, he picked out Holt who was galloping forward in the inside right channel.

Adjective modifier

  • full: In full gallop they reach 40 mph, covering 25 feet in a single stride.
  • fast: The captive ox was then driven in a fast gallop to the camp of the buyer.

Modifying Another Word

  • fast: The jockey said that his horse could gallop fast.

Noun used with modifier

  • horse: Will some dark horse gallop from a mysterious stable?

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: Take off checks complete and all systems go, brakes off and gallop down the runway.

Preposition: of

  • horse: Here, also, crash his arrows; here, in the farthest glade, sounds the gallop of the pale horse.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • along: The film gallops along at a furious pace from start to finish of its 130 minutes duration.
  • around: A short break ensues whilst I gallop around putting up signs which say SILENCE PLEASE!
  • over: Anthony Anderson then profited from a perfect pass from prop Ian Gough and was able to gallop over for a try.

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