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Definition of gait:

  • (noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
  • (noun) a horse's manner of moving
  • (noun) a person's manner of walking

Sentence Examples:

He rode back at a road gait to the hotel.

The party started off at a rapid gait.

Regulate your gait on me after you get your distance.

I just let him take his own gait.

There was no mistaking his gait and carriage.

He had the tall water-roll in his gait.

In the Duchess's company life struck another gait.

It had destroyed the composure of his gait.

The three columns marched at the same gait.

It was interesting to watch the different gaits.

The gait of the youths was the same.

Their movements are slow and their gait heavy.

His voice was thick, and his gait unsteady.

The men are erect and firm of gait.

Alexander's; a slight limp visible in his gait.

And what charming ease appears in her gait!

There was "a broken music" in his gait!

He let his horses take their own gait.

The boys have not struck their gait yet.

Curiosity urged them along at a breathless gait.

There is a peculiar 'feeling' characteristic in the gait.

The whites were permitted to pursue at any gait.

After that he came forward at an ordinary gait.

The most difficult gait to ride is the trot.

He sure would strike a different gait with me!

Where are you going at such a headlong gait?

Nobody is talking of her face or her gait.

When it is bilateral the gait is seriously impaired.

He shook up his horse into a better gait.

Mile dash, free-for-all, either gait, association rules to govern.

Let us take our own gait; long live joy!

He could not be walking at his usual gait.

Her height and gait struck me as somewhat unusual.

It is usually taken at a meaningless, rapid gait.

The gait of these horses is peculiar and indescribable.

He stalked forward with the gait of a warrior.

It started down the road at a speedy gait.

He walked with a rolling gait about the room.

Then he came on, but at a slower gait.

There was a marked difference between the gaits.

The "Scalp-hunter" was not showing a winning gait!

She was quickly in, regardless of her gait.

Charlie was still driving at his maddest gait.

And that gait was being struck by others.

Whatever has kept you such gait, Miss Amy?

There was something lowly in this constrained gait.

To urge Whiskey and Soda to a more rapid gait.

Oh, that boy knew his gait all right!

The Prophet's gait was slow, solemn and majestic.

Darnell thought that Lawrence's gait was just right.

"Keep a steady gait," the foreman had said.

Muscles of the neck, trunk and extremities; gait.

She stepped forward with a light bounding gait.

Well, we shall let her 'gang her gait.'

The terrific gait of that life in an open world!

Everard entered with the gait of a tired man.

He was slow in speech and slow in gait.

Owing to a club-foot, his gait was singularly awkward.

Our horses are good Kentucky riding stock with gaits.

He simply broke his gait, he was so surprised.

And he stepped in with a lounging, heavy gait.

Whatever was following her also took a slower gait.

My tenth is in manner, but not in gait.

Suppose we touch up for a little faster gait.

The horses kept to the gait of the leaders.

His peculiar gait, hair and countenance are very characteristic.

Naturally, such a fierce gait could not last long.

He walks with a proper gait; he's no come-lightly.

The gait was a steady three miles an hour.

A few steps further on he relaxed his gait.

On the ground their gait was easy and brisk.

When he walked he moved with a bear-like gait.

She walked with the gait of a young athlete.

It was coming toward them at a slow gait.

And he lifted the car to a lively gait.

I will not suffer you to speak that gait.

I see why the Casino hasn't struck its gait.

Allen, as he started forward at a more rapid gait.

As he returned I could read disapproval in his gait.

Soon afterward, a slight stoop in her gait became visible.

Because of his halt gait, he ran in a circle.

Gaits are regulated as in movements from line into column.

Several boys followed behind him, mimicking his gait.

He ordered, and they were off at a good gait.

He had been going a rapid gait for a year.

Ride out of this the best gait your horse knows.

One acquires a long, sliding gait that is very easy.

She recognized him by his elegant, careless gait.

At length their gait dragged, and they stood still.

Something in the man's gait and costume struck Prince.

He stepped proudly along, his very gait indicating superiority.

The latter movements are to resemble the animal's gait.

The fashionable gait is comparatively slow, with long steps.

Ernest Wynn followed him, in the same strange gait.

Their gait is the most beautiful motion I have ever seen.

She noticed the hesitating, dragging gait of his speech.

Well, we did come down in here at a good gait.

He rode westward at a gait that ate up the miles.

His gait was unsteady, and his voice was thick.

His high-heeled boots gave him a somewhat awkward gait.