unhorse

Example Sentences

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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72.

From Time Magazine Archive

The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood in his day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rather that than let the first insane capering of his intellect unhorse him and leave him gibbering after a vanished mount.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Smith, Wallace