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How to use run the gauntlet in a sentence

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Larger objects may run the gauntlet of the atmosphere and reach the surface, but this is rare and only happens a few times a year.
A calcium ion has to run the gauntlet of many, many molecules before it reaches a binding site.
I'm not a socialiser, never go to the premieres to run the gauntlet of paparazzi.
Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
Alison was already too far gone to be transferred and if we had to run the gauntlet to St Mary's I might have lost her and my babies.
Money, tickets, passports and we were off to run the gauntlet of south London.
Trucks bringing in supplies have to run the gauntlet of Isis checkpoints and ambushes.
Also, women collaborators were forced to run the gauntlet and were really beaten.
Not only this, but in my individual case no bus was prepared to run the gauntlet.
The very fact the woman had to run the gauntlet of traffic and pigeons messing on her is proof alone she is not experiencing a level playing field.
In those days, we didn't have security and we'd have to run the gauntlet.
Mixed Zones at our football grounds are the places where those nice footballers run the gauntlet of us nasty reporters.
Ships that had successfully run the gauntlet of the Atlantic crossing were sometimes destroyed entering freshly cleared British harbours.
Even so, the coaches run the gauntlet of critics.
Why run the gauntlet of public, political and media opprobrium?
Hence real life bosses are forced to run the gauntlet as every decision is questioned by alpha geek wannabes who know just how the tactical or technical problem can be solved.
If you could reach your funk-hole, and crouch in it, there was a fair chance of your coming out of it alive next day to run the gauntlet of the Bapaume Road again.
Examples from Classical Literature
We must, then, make a push, and if the Indians or Frenchers are in the narrows, run the gauntlet through these toppling mountains.
To run the gauntlet of their faces in Cornhill is enough to discourage a thoughtful man for hours.
By one speaker it was proposed that he be disembowelled, by another that he be made to run the gauntlet.
Some lost heart and proposed to return, rather than fight their way, and, in a manner, run the gauntlet through the country of these piratical marauders.
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