bridle
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Castro is accused of pulling on the bridle of one horse and grabbing the reins of another as mounted deputies moved toward a crowd of protesters to enforce dispersal orders on June 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
But nations including South Africa and Colombia bridle at what they see as an implicit choice.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
Cradling a 3D printed copy of a horse skull from Mongolia, Taylor points to a groove midway along the long, sloping nose, caused by pressure from a bridle.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
“You can see right up the bridle path to the Malverns.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Fonsia is a prim, religious woman who bridles at Weller’s obstreperousness and salty expressions of annoyance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
Without saddles or bridles, mounting them proved tricky.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
And her son bridled at having to share personal information that Chavez needed in order to apply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Some analysts say Japan has gradually lost its competitive edge because it hasn’t done enough to nurture innovation and free up new sources of growth bridled by old-time bureaucracies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
I bridled a little at the word child.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
In her autobiography, Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Since the end of the 19th century, perhaps bridling against the nascent industrial age, composers have played with different ways of creating music resistant to man-made mechanics of time keeping.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2020
Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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