canter
noun
an easy gallop.
have cantered
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present perfectof canter.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Six months and more have cantered by: And, Winter past, we're out again— We've left the fat and weatherwise To keep their coops and reeking sties.
From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
She would have cantered on again, but he made her walk for, perhaps, another five minutes, until they were come to a stretch of common he knew well.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
I have cantered my thoroughbred along Rotten Row, eaten my truffled dinners in Belgravia, whispered my nonsense over the white shoulders of the fairest and best-born of England's daughters.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
It is a very cold day, you have cantered your two miles, and now you are wiping your brows, as if you had run the distance in half the time on foot.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 by Various
Change his costume a bit, and substitute a slouch hat for his flat-topped lancer's cap, and he might have cantered bodily out of one of Remington's canvases.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
