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starting gate

NOUN
  1. a movable barrier on the starting line of a race course

How To Use starting gate In A Sentence

  • The first man out of the starting gate today will swing and glide over a carpet of man-made snow 80 centimetres deep.
  • But he suffered a costly motor failure in his second heat when his motor failed at the starting gate.
  • Unger's plot bursts from the starting gate and never lets up, as Ridley pieces together the puzzle that is her past. Sliver of Truth by Lisa Unger: Book summary
  • Borel emphasizes the importance of having his mount break cleanly from the starting gate — along with 19 other horses — then avoiding the bumping and jostling for position that regularly occurs into the first turn. Kentucky Derby represents a 'humbling, challenging race'
  • He was, however, having difficulty in getting a suitable test case to the starting gate.
  • They call the Kentucky Derby the most exciting two minutes in sports, but it also contains the most bizarre, fascinating and harrowing millisecond—the moment the steel starting gates pop open and release 20 half-mad, inexperienced thoroughbreds that zoom to 30 miles per hour in just a couple of strides. The Most Critical Two Seconds in Sports
  • Brought over to the Donmar some seven years ago to direct a production of Jean Genet's The Maids, after Mendes had seen one of his productions in Dublin, Crowley watched his stablemate falter at the starting gate several times.
  • Black Ruby visited the starting gate and jogged while Taz jogged on the backstretch.
  • Well, Smarty Jones once reared up and hit his head on a piece of unpadded iron on a starting gate at Philadelphia Park.
  • As the gladiators rolled away from the starting gates, a gasp went up when the Scottish cyclist's left foot clicked out of the pedal.
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