How do you use the word "gallop" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "gallop": We had a gallop over the hill. They moved quicker than horses in gallop.

Gallop Meaning

/ˈɡæləp/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

nounAn act or instance of going or running rapidly.

Sentence Examples

We had a gallop over the hill.

They moved quicker than horses in gallop.

Horses have three modes of locomotion: Walk, trot and gallop.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

extend

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The horse began to ____ across the field at top speed.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The horse started to ____ across the open meadow as soon as it saw the beautiful open space ahead.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn to meet her." — 2013 March 18, The "Girls" Roundtable, “The 'Girls' Season-Finale Gut Check: And Hannah Lived Happily Ever After?”, in The Atlantic:

"Gallop lively down the western hill." — a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn:

"In the 11th minute the German won possession in midfield and teed up the galloping Kieran Gibbs, whose angled shot was pushed by Kelvin Davies straight into the retreating Jos Hooiveld." — 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:

"Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it." — a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:

"Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]" — 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey:

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