warhorse

Example Sentences

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French knights were expensive, each man-at-arms the product of many years of training, his armor and warhorse a major investment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The warhorse Wawrinka departed for a medical timeout after the third set as his Melbourne escapades caught up with him.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

What position you play is also a factor - Youngs and Care are scrum-halves and Goode and Brown full-backs - with warhorse prop Cole something of an outlier.

From BBC • May 29, 2025

Spielberg, attentive as he is to the quality of the singing and dancing, operates from the conviction that this Broadway-to-Hollywood warhorse still has something important to say.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021

And greatest is Rostam—a warhorse to Neptune, a pallbearer of the Nazarene.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri