cantering

Definition of canteringnext
present participle of canter

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • With the enthusiastic Sun loping into your 9th House of Mental Expansion, curiosity is about to become your best guide.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
  • This addictive, loping track is one of the best and strangest songs from the artist’s fifth album.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In the second half, Smith had a handful of incredible saves to keep the score at 2-1, including leaping up to snare a crossing pass and stopping two shots on breakaways.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Most fish in Moynaq’s bazaar—centered around a fountain of golden carp leaping from a dried-up well—now come from farms.
    Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • In the background there are grazing topi, bounding Thomson's gazelles, and, far in the distance, a snoozing pride of lions.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • About two minutes into the exchange, Jones begins galloping toward Prignano, who is able to back away and keep his distance from him as the two are in the middle of the street.
    Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Fleeing, not quite leaping and clumsily sort of galloping, is no easy matter for a snail (the starfish has thousands of ciliate foot like suction cups), and fighting is pure folly versus so many arms.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The art market has its share of globe-trotting fairs but few glamorous female-centric industry events—until now.
    Vanessa Grigoriadis, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The globe-trotting political thriller's star, Claire Danes, will join forces with her old parter in crime-fighting, Damian Lewis, to present one of the evening's awards.
    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The untitled track comes with a serotonin-providing video of a person—perhaps the Norwegian singer/composer herself—skipping down a road carrying a baby, with a brief cameo from a similarly cheerful dog.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Russian artists are also staging a comeback at the Venice Biennale in May after skipping two previous editions.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • With Colorado on its fourth power play a short time later, Brock Faber’s hard shot from behind his own net caused a Colorado turnover in the neutral zone, springing Sturm on a shorthanded breakaway and giving the visitors the lead.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Daylight saving time begins on Sunday, March 8, with clocks springing forward.
    Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The breathable mesh upper moves with your feet, and gives the perfect stretch needed to accommodate everything from exploring a new city to sprinting between airport gates.
    Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
  • By the mid-2000s, mathematicians had proved that when there are seven or fewer runners sprinting around a track, each of them will eventually get lonely.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
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“Cantering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantering. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.

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