hooves

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Hooves echoed through the streets and flags waved high as members of the southeast Los Angeles cowboy community saddled up for a three-mile unity ride to Compton City Hall on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025

She also had minor roles in films: she was Christine Keeler’s mother in Scandal, the 1989 film about the Profumo affair, and voiced Mrs Santa in Hooves of Fire, the 1999 Robbie the Reindeer film.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2016

Hooves clopped down and grass flew up as if churned through an electric fan.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2014

Hooves kicked mud in all directions, like a spray of machine-gun fire; meanwhile, Lao Lan, hellbent on escaping, headed instinctively toward the onlookers, hoping to find salvation in the crowd.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2012

Hooves clopping and heavy huffing fills the room.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya