canters

present tense third-person singular of canter

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • But the cast gallops right past the clichés.
    Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ralphy leaps up in shock, tumbles off the sofa, and sprints toward his owner, who is filming nearby.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Maddie’s Secret follows Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When the Pacers shut that down, Harper immediately springs into action to get the ball instead.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Male ratfish have a structure called a tenaculum, which is essentially a retractable rod tipped with a chandelier of teeth that springs out of their forehead to grip females during mating.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Also, keep in mind that the outdoor outfitter REI usually skips the day entirely, famously staying closed for its #OptOutside campaign.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Ina skips all that by using frozen puff pastry dough, which bakes into perfectly flaky layers that soak up the buttery brown sugar and cinnamon filling.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As my guide Nicolas Jeanroy preps his truffle gear, which looks like a collection of garden tools, his canine partner, Taïga, bounds up.
    Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • And speaking of guest stars doing all of the trio’s investigative work for them, Richard Kind then bounds into the room (as Richard Kinds are wont to do) with a huge development of his own.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When trying to work out of Brighton’s press, Malo Gusto’s mishit pass to Jadon Sancho ends in the visitors winning the ball and creating an overload; Marc Cucurella sprints over to help and flies into his challenge, picking up a yellow card.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Once the dynamite is on the ground, Manchis immediately sprints down the stairs, towards the danger.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The visitors passed back from the free kick and Joao Pedro initially jogs towards goal, with Anderson signalling for a team-mate to follow him, but then changes direction again.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Blazy gives Odhiang a deep hug, jogs around the runway, and flees toward the exit, smiling.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nicholas trips over a bramble, falls to his hands and knees in the soaking grass.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike overlapping or hook-and-eye designs that can get tricky, the zipper makes bathroom trips much easier—an incredibly practical feature.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Canters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canters. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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