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"gantlet" Definitions
  1. Railroads
  2. a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
  3. gauntlet2 (defs. 1, 2, 4).
  4. Railroads
  5. to form or lay down as a gantlet: to gantlet tracks.

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147 Sentences With "gantlet"

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And the prize, should the Mets get through this gantlet?
During their association, he passed through a gantlet of prickling degradations.
Ms. Orkin snapped Ms. Allen twice walking that testosterone-charged gantlet.
Foreign journalists seeking to examine such claims face a gantlet of challenges.
Second, we need to eliminate the dangerous, inhumane gantlet of fishing line.
However, that gantlet has had another result, Mr. Cuomo said last year.
Witnesses described the practice of "running the gantlet, " in which district managers dressed in themed costumes, formed a gantlet and had managers run individually down the line to a whiteboard where they were to report their sales numbers.
All year, Washington has refused to fold despite a gantlet of serious setbacks.
Had the Open been elsewhere, he probably would not have run the gantlet.
The saving grace of the monthslong gantlet was the promise of wedding expos.
Minutes later, Terese, Micah, Miles and I followed them through the same gantlet.
They also faced a gantlet of decorous critics, clergymen and anti-smut crusaders.
The species we see today have passed through a gantlet of challenges over time.
And unless one fancies running the T.S.A.'s gantlet of gropers again, there's no escape.
Frances Tiafoe, Ernesto Escobedo, Noah Rubin and Reilly Opelka came through the gantlet of qualifying.
Navigating this gantlet, when I was pregnant, I called a friend who had recently given birth.
And through the fine-dining gantlet, we emerged as champions for no-nonsense, flavorful home cooking.
Having survived the trenches of France, they now ran a gantlet of terror in their hometowns.
Just hours earlier she may have agreed, but her mind has run a gantlet since then.
It is a gantlet that has gone unacknowledged even decades after Katherine Johnson's accomplishments at NASA.
On Tuesday, as Mr. Johnson fumbled his way through the same gantlet she once navigated, Mrs.
First, you must run the gantlet of prying eyes and piercing glances by the co-op board.
If it does, is he confident that FedLoan can follow whatever new regulations survive the legislative gantlet?
Opinion WASHINGTON — On a recent visit to New York, traversing Times Square felt like running a gantlet.
In its recording the episodes of an imagined history, the tapestry was also a gantlet of spoilers.
No more war!' chants break out immediately after the nominee slips through the camera gantlet and sits down.
Forty also just seemed a long way away, a place you'd have to run a gantlet to reach.
Floyd and a few thousand others had already done the essential part: walking the gantlet and securing their spots.
The Wildcats are now two-thirds of the way through a three-game gantlet against AP Top 25 teams.
But the gymnasium — repainted in recent years a pale and luminous blue — was both a haven and a gantlet.
Andrea runs a sordid gantlet of sexual violations before taking desperate charge of her life, yet she remains ferociously innocent.
They simply want to make a mark, and some have higher hopes than others after going through the qualifying gantlet.
Patients who make it through the gantlet of protesters on Saturdays are often shaken once they get inside, she said.
But first, Mr. Strauss-Kahn had to face a gantlet of photographers who had waited as long as 15 hours.
For now, private blockchains are too new to have gone through the security gantlet that Bitcoin has already passed through.
We maneuvered around a clutch of protesters who were wearing gas masks and idling by a gantlet of riot police.
At the heart of the problem is a broken federal permitting process that has created an unnavigable gantlet for hydropower projects.
Students run a gantlet of rubber bullets, water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas just to make it to the library.
Our heaps of special deductions, exemptions and credits are part of what makes filing taxes an intimidating gantlet for many Americans.
But before they could absorb this warm welcome, they were besieged by a gantlet of jostling, shouting reporters outside the hotel.
What had been a public space to prepare for or decompress from the drama within has become part of the entrance gantlet.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has absolutely been through the gantlet of public and personal challenges unlike any other public figure in my lifetime.
He said aid trucks had to run a gantlet of 56 armed checkpoints to deliver food to Bentiu, a conflict-hit area.
Several supporters of Mr. O'Rourke said they were intimidated by a gantlet of pro-Trump protesters blocking their way to the rally.
The changes require the dismantling of a gantlet: of persistent bias, obstacles and actions that block women's entry or push them out.
Each song offers its own gantlet of musical leaps and verbal allusions, though they keep circling back to personal breakups and societal breakdowns.
Mr. Piazza, prosecutors said, was participating in a drinking gantlet in which fraternity pledges drank several kinds of alcohol, and he became intoxicated.
Judge Gorsuch will immediately face a public and private gantlet of scrutiny, and could end up at the center of fevered political maneuvering.
A 21982-mile gantlet of mob violence peaked in Alabama with a firebombing and attacks by police officers with nightsticks and snarling dogs.
Presumably that's because the goal of having candidates run this particular gantlet is giving voters information they can use to make a thoughtful choice.
Borrowers who make it through the gantlet of their repayment plans and still owe on their debts will have their federal student loans forgiven.
Prisoners were forced to strip naked and run through a gantlet of 30 to 40 corrections officers who took turns beating them with batons.
Until 20103, fish ran a gantlet of three large dams in the first 10 miles of the Penobscot above head of tide, near Bangor.
Foreign drone companies would run their wares through a gantlet of trials, carrying objects between the mainland and nearby islands, in competition for contracts.
His new album, "Die Trommel Fatale," out June 15, passes you through a gantlet of anxiety, promising little more than cataclysm at the other end.
But soon, the *Avalon *starts getting glitchy, sending our hero and heroine through a dizzying gantlet of gravity-defying leaps, stressful space-walks, and one VERY .
Most are simply being told by recruiters that they have failed the gantlet of background checks that have gotten increasingly strict in the past two years.
But the Jayhawks (31-8) and the Wildcats survived the gantlet to reach the Final Four on the strength of their senior leadership and guard play.
Even for a former House speaker who moved some of the most consequential bills in recent U.S. history through Congress, Nancy Pelosi navigated a gantlet this week.
Prison is its own confounding gantlet, overseen by an imperious inmate, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams, characteristically smoldering), who may matter more to Naz's survival than any judge.
As in "Alice in Wonderland" or "The Phantom Tollbooth," Fidge is dragged through a gantlet of absurdity, forcing her to engage with a fictional world she disdained.
Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Hudgens, Debi Mazar and Chris Cooper walked the media gantlet, alongside musical theater talent like Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sherie Rene Scott and Sierra Boggess.
But along the way, they snake through the drought-hit farm communities of the San Joaquin Valley and a gantlet of dams and diversions for crop irrigation.
For women who wish to avoid running this underwriting gantlet, buying as much insurance as they think they'll ever need before their first pregnancy remains the best move.
The department says it hires only about 15 percent of the applicants who make it through a monthslong gantlet of background checks, fitness tests, polygraph tests and interviews.
The main drag, Sands Street, was a gantlet of sailor bars and brothels that only outsiders found charming ("as vivacious as a country fair," Carson McCullers called it).
Each day at school, Adrian runs a gantlet of threats and intimidation, weighted by anxiety and the books he carries to avoid his locker, where he risks ambush.
Doctors Without Borders, the aid group that treats the wounded here, has warned that many wounded may be trapped inside the city, unable to pass through the gantlet.
If Ohio State does make it to the playoff, it will have run quite a gantlet, with games versus Michigan State and Michigan still to come in November.
They ran through a gantlet of fans from their locker rooms into the stadium, giving high-fives along the way, close contact rarely seen in the United States.
And while many tiger cubs run the gantlet and emerge as academic gladiators, on average, children subjected to high-pressure parenting actually tend to do worse in school.
Gilligan walks Jesse through a gantlet of frying pans and fires, a series of break-ins and double-crosses as tense and seamless as any "Breaking Bad" caper.
After the emotional gantlet of the trial, she began drinking and developed obsessive-compulsive disorder, washing her hands 30 times a day in an effort to feel clean.
But while this Eastern Conference gantlet might have sharpened their play, the Warriors' toughest challenge of the season will come Monday night against their Western Conference rival, the Spurs.
Hecklers interrupted her repeatedly,and on the street her supporters faced taunts from a gantlet of demonstrators blaming her for President Obama's deportation of some Central American asylum seekers.
On Election Day most men in a community gathered around the ballot box, turning the polling place into an awkward combination of a town hall and a fraternity gantlet.
He had cleared the gantlet and emerged with a painting that seems to me a masterwork, but the glowering threat of time remained and was unlikely ever to relent.
But when he was running the hiring gantlet and talking about all of that, he received a clear message that he was not to fool with the bathing ritual.
And he is the latest to run this gantlet, having just announced a new energy policy that he describes as a "game changer" in Australia's never-ending climate wars.
As more friends have kids, this stream of information gets steadily replaced by reports from the other side: women who have made it through the gantlet and reported back.
Architects were willing to run the gantlet of bureaucracy back then because they had design champions like David Burney, who oversaw the Department of Design and Construction for the city.
The fastest way to get playing status on the European Tour is to make it through a gantlet of tournaments collectively known as Qualifying School, or Q School for short.
Indeed, angry anti-Macron union demonstrators besieged the Left Bank meeting hall where the economy minister spoke Tuesday night, forcing his supporters to run a gantlet of police officers and protesters.
Roy Halston Frowick, a fixture of the 1970s fashion scene, watched his Halston brand begin to cycle through a gantlet of corporate maneuvers to near obscurity before his death in 1990.
On social media, users share videos of Messi's slipping passes through improbably tight spaces, corkscrewing shots past sprawling goalkeepers, darting around defenders like a jack rabbit navigating a gantlet of sloths.
But he allowed Google's data to change his mind, too: "run the gantlet", however traditional, has long been outnumbered by examples of "run the gauntlet", so he has accepted the newer usage.
But as the president's agenda passes through the razor-blade gantlet of the House, where Mr. Ryan faces the constant threat of opposition and overthrow, the two men have become foxhole buddies.
Those activists who tried to participate in the nominating process faced a gantlet of procedures organized by a party group, the Fatherland Front, an independent journalist, Pham Doan Trang, wrote in a report.
Once, his short flight from Shanghai to Beijing became a 24-hour gantlet that included sleeping over at a college dormitory and being locked in a bus without air-conditioning for an hour.
No woman should be forced to confront a gantlet of hostile and intimidating protesters in order to exercise her constitutional right to reproductive choice, but that is the practical consequence of McCullen v.
By the time it's through, the filmmakers, Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills, have poked into murders in places like New Jersey, Florida and New Mexico and taken viewers through a gantlet of sordidness.
The disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was led past a gantlet of photographers, above, and into a courtroom to face charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex.
A gantlet of cheerleaders was there to greet him, as were members of the pep band, who were wearing T-shirts that read, "Home Sw33t Home," a nod to Ewing's old jersey number.
Having submitted his credentials to Harvard after the departure of Erik Farrar, Minnis advanced through the application gantlet of faculty, students and athletics staff primarily because of his ability to teach and learn.
That law, and others passed since, forced companies to rigorously test their products, running them through a gantlet of clinical trials whose results are then vetted by the F.D.A. before any sales to consumers.
Get through that gantlet somehow and reach the final, and only then would he be in a position to benefit from Denis Istomin's upset on Thursday night of the No. 2 seed, Novak Djokovic.
The turquoise sea that surrounds the beautiful Greek island of Lesbos, just 4.1 miles from the Turkish coast, is these days a deadly gantlet, choked with terrified adults and small children on flimsy, dangerous boats.
And the line drawers are not politicians but citizens who must write four essays, ace a 90-minute interview and clear a gantlet of background checks and ethics prohibitions to be considered for a seat.
She detailed the gantlet of fear and discrimination she had faced, including when authorities put her son in an orphanage for about a year after her own mother sued to have him removed from home.
"When we're finished assessing whether someone has the skills we're looking for and has the experience we're looking for, we do something we call running the gantlet," said Peter Miller, chief of OptiNose, a biopharmaceutical company.
The Philippines, one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, could see a host of new energy projects coming online after Duterte changed the approval system from a multi-year gantlet to a 30-day process.
The study, the interviews, a seemingly endless gantlet of meetings with politicians — it all laid the groundwork for the new law, which Mr. Pardinas, a private citizen directing a public policy group, was helping to write.
That left many anxious people with mild symptoms running a never-ending gantlet: primary care doctors referred them to state public health officials, who referred them to emergency rooms, who referred them back to primary care doctors.
He and his lawyers waited briefly in the courthouse lobby while his wife, son and daughter, left the building, passed through a huge gantlet of television crews and photographers outside, and climbed into a waiting black Infiniti QX60.
The heaps of special deductions, exemptions and credits are part of what makes filing taxes an intimidating gantlet for many Americans — the reason that even an online tax service might ask you hundreds of questions to calculate your obligations.
Aid convoys have run the gantlet of sniper fire and shelling in the course of the five-year conflict, but the attack on Monday is believed to have been the first time a convoy has come under attack by aircraft.
Running a gantlet that included Giancarlo Stanton, last year's National League M.V.P.; Aaron Judge, who hit 22 home runs as a rookie; and Gary Sanchez, who belted 133 homers in his first 213 major league games was a pitcher's nightmare.
And Mr. Walker was entering what appeared to be a tough gantlet in seeking a second term, facing a well-known Democratic candidate, the former United States Senator Mark Begich, and a well-financed Republican former state senator, Mike J. Dunleavy.
Wearing a well-tailored suit, Mr. Lee emerged through the metal detectors of a court in Seoul, the capital, on Thursday and past a news media gantlet to his car, which drove him to a detention center to await a decision.
But he has found both love and a fine patch of tennis form in the past few months, and he managed to reach the main draw at Wimbledon for the first time after getting through the imposing gantlet of prequalifying and qualifying.
Each repetition ended with his jumping over a dummy or running through a gantlet or bouncing off those shields, movements that test his surgically repaired left knee and approximate those he will make when he is cleared for contact, whenever that is.
Oklahoma, which has a loss to No. 17 Texas (6-2), probably needs to run a gantlet including next month at No. 13 West Virginia (7-1) and in the conference title game, probably a rematch versus the Longhorns or the Mountaineers.
The 24-year-old farmer, who grows crops such as corn and soybeans on land his family has held since the 240s, has navigated a gantlet of wet land and low prices further depressed by President Donald Trump's trade war with China.
All in all, the prospects look slim that Kupperman's case could make it through the gantlet of steps necessary to secure a full Supreme Court review before Capitol Hill has exhausted its impeachment efforts, which may only last a few more months.
After overcoming Notre Dame (7-1) as part of a gantlet that also included victories over Baylor, Florida State, DePaul and Texas, the Huskies looked at the big picture — the state of their program — rather than relishing the enormity of their winning streak.
Rainbow smelt — Osmerus mordax — are a tough and noble little fish, guided by instinct as they run a gantlet of predators from saltwater to fresh on a migration that for millennia has taken them up rivers of ice to feed and procreate.
Cory Booker of New Jersey, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California, Warren and others eye the 2020 gantlet, they might move forward with little to no support from the national politicians who know them best.
An independent has to run an expensive gantlet to gather enough signatures to get on the ballot in all the states, suffers a severe disadvantage in fund-raising, and is effectively barred from the fall presidential debates by a commission loaded with party stalwarts.
Similarly, electing a female President means imagining new possibilities: that a woman might survive that gantlet of derision to hold power with confidence, without apology, to enlarge our notions of authority and hasten an age when a female President will no longer be exceptional.
After completing a task for Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes in 1941 — to assess Alaska's prospects for homesteading postwar G.I.s — Ms. Gruber took on a mission for President Roosevelt in 1944, escorting 984 refugees to America on a ship that ran a U-boat gantlet.
On that frigid December morning, Mr. Deng, who was known as Michael, strapped on the backpack and put on the blindfold, following three other pledges through the gantlet, which was known as the "glass ceiling" and was said to represent the plight of Asian-Americans.
There was some fizzy excitement beforehand as fans rushed the rope line, chasing celebrities along a gantlet leading from their chauffeured cars to an immense gray box set up on the grounds of the École Militaire, a vast military training complex not far from the Eiffel Tower.
But the topic of sexual misconduct has now become so prevalent that some of Hollywood's image-tending experts and awards consultants have been holding conference calls in hopes of coming to a consensus — an elusive one, so far — about how to run the media gantlet ahead.
In episodes like "Alligator Man," which culminates in an actual alligator strutting out of a house, and "Woods," which ran Brian Tyree Henry's Alfred through a gantlet of physical and emotional terror, Mr. Murai took cues from David Lynch, Takeshi Kitano and Joel and Ethan Coen.
ANCHORAGE — The Iditarod dog-sled race has gripped the imagination here for a long time, partly because it captures the idea, cherished by Alaskans, that a true-north wildness lies just over the horizon, and anyone getting there must first face a harsh gantlet of ice and cold.
Then again, unlike the other four conferences — which feature two divisions, all of which have been lopsided in one direction the past three years — the single-table Big 218 will pit its two best teams against each other for the title, forcing its champion to run a tougher gantlet.
Mr. Pugh, 47, is a British endurance swimmer who has conquered a gantlet of extraordinary swims in the last 30 years, from a dip in a glacial lake in Mt. Everest to a full circuit around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where he was raised.
" Eleanor's poetry lessons might help her be present and listen deeply, though the really memorable moment between Eleanor and her tutor, a mop-haired poet named Alonzo, takes place not during the analysis of a poem but in the middle of Costco: "I arrived at the gantlet of food-sample people.
While one would hope for a substantive discussion, it's pretty clear to me that this is just going to be that media-saturated geek reality show episode, in which real billionaires walk the gantlet of prostration at Trump Tower and get exactly nothing for handing over their dignity so easily.
Large crowds continue to congregate near the red carpet, though civilians seeking a closer look at "Jessica!" and "Will!" are now surrounded by battalions of guards; meanwhile, those entering the festival headquarters have to pass through an intense security gantlet that includes not only metal detectors but also airport-style checks.
Amy Sedaris, the celebrity contestant, runs around in a helmet breaking a glass ceiling, romping with a male nurse on a "Grey's" patient's deathbed, crawling through an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award ball pit, and running a gantlet of white people patting themselves on the back for embracing a black leading lady.
In a mirror image of his days presiding over Hollywood red carpets, the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was led in handcuffs past a gantlet of photographers on Friday as he appeared in court to face charges that he had raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex.
" Later, during the 10th century, a Christian monk named Hucbald of St. Amand wrote "In Praise of Baldness," in which he imagines, with sadistic glee, the gantlet of woe awaiting his hecklers: "Compress that cruel cad, captured for the crime of carping at all the bald in bootless brute behavior.
It looks like she'll have to come clean about her "sordid past," and if she's looking for any pointers on that score, she might check in with her sis, who had to run the same gantlet years back with Matthew (and who is meanwhile, with agonizing slowness, piecing together the Marigold puzzle).
Mr. Ma is the star of a new movie, "Gong Shou Dao," which follows Mr. Ma's character, a practitioner of Tai Chi, through a gantlet of action stars that includes Jet Li. Mr. Ma emerges victorious, only to be greeted by three other formidable fighters: the action star Jason Statham and the boxers Manny Pacquiao and Gennady Golovkin.
It was interesting to imagine them waking up at dawn on the mornings of their Salon visits, steeling themselves to walk the gantlet of éleveurs —of eye-patched Abondances and woolly Salers; of Basque pigs with their ikat hides—certain that they were in for abuse, the only question being how much, and whether they could withstand it.
With raised fists and hands, and wearing black T-shirts printed with the names of Sandra Bland or Walter Scott and the chilling slogan "Stop Killing Us," the protesters stood all day outside fashion week headquarters, flanking a curbside gantlet where the style peacocks — the writer Holly Brubach got it right when she termed them "hot nobodies" — strut for the cameras.
"It's deeply disappointing that President Obama failed to use this opportunity to add the voice of another progressive woman of color to the Supreme Court, and instead put forward a nominee seemingly designed to appease intransigent Republicans rather than inspire the grassroots he'll need to get that nominee through the Senate gantlet," Democracy for America Executive Director Charles Chamberlain said in a statement.
When lawmakers return from their weeklong July 4 recess, they will confront a gantlet of fiscal deadlines that need to be reconciled with the Senate: a deal to prevent billions of dollars in sharp spending cuts across all government agencies, an agreement to raise the government's borrowing limit and all 12 bills to keep the government fully funded after Sept. 30.
In December 2013, Mr. Deng, who grew up in Queens, joined full-fledged fraternity members and other pledges in a large rental house in Tunkhannock Township, Pa. Early on a frigid morning, Mr. Deng put on the backpack and blindfold, following three other pledges through a ritual called the "glass ceiling," a gantlet that was intended to represent the plight of Asian-Americans.
Democrats on Thursday emphasized their intent to explore and broadcast Mr. Trump's actions through existing investigations, believing that, lacking startling new evidence, a drawn-out gantlet of inquiries will do more damage to a president seeking re-election than a partisan impeachment that could only roil the country and energize Republicans — a thousand cuts over a swing of the ax.
"It's deeply disappointing that President Obama failed to use this opportunity to add the voice of another progressive woman of color to the Supreme Court, and instead put forward a nominee seemingly designed to appease intransigent Republicans rather than inspire the grass roots he'll need to get that nominee through the Senate gantlet," Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of the Democracy for America, said in a statement. .
EditorsNote: Edit 1: Deleted second first reference, changed gauntlet to gantlet PJ Washington scored a game-high 21 points as No. 8 Kentucky continued its mid-January run with a 76-55 victory over No. 22 Mississippi State on Tuesday night in Lexington, Ky. Tyler Herro added 253 as the Wildcats (15-3, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) won their fifth game in a row.
Before guests like Sarah Jessica Parker and Johnny Depp run the flashbulb gantlet to get to their Champagne and canapés, however, they will have to air-kiss the co-hosts Anna Wintour, Miuccia Prada, Taylor Swift, Nicolas Ghesquière, Idris Elba and Jonathan Ive, and at least pretend to pay attention to the nominal reason they are there: the opening of "Manus x Machina," the Met's annual fashion blockbuster exhibition.
The gantlet of environmental and community reviews that seems to slow progress today was created in part so there wouldn't be another Robert Moses, who demolished first and asked questions later, if he asked at all; who put shovels in the ground before worrying about where the money would come from, since he knew that even balky legislators could not allow a half-finished bridge to stay that way.
We forked over $60 each for the opportunity to run a gantlet of bag searchers and body wanders (nine or 10 buff dudes in Under Armour-branded red shirts and black gloves); pay $50 for two six-ounce mojitos; and awkwardly set up shop in a tiny patch of shade thrown off from an elevated bungalow with its own private pool (which, incidentally, cost $123,000 to reserve for the Saturday of Labor Day weekend).
Here are all these members of the conservative intelligentsia, whose theories seem to undergird so much of our political reality, talking what sounds to me like eggheaded nonsense, while I, a poet and a freelance writer in New York City, am obsessing over whether my family will have health insurance in a year, and whether my young son, who is black, will be able to dodge Trump's white-nationalist gantlet long enough to make it to adulthood, go to college, and get a good job somewhere his talents won't be wasted.

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