bronco
Example Sentences
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The 45-minute bucking bronco of a ride down the rim ended at a marsh, where we ate a tasty boxed lunch of mustard-ginger chicken stew.
From New York Times
Competitions include bareback bronco riding, saddle bronco, steer roping, ribbon roping and wild cow milking.
From Seattle Times
Twelve horses died in bronco riding events — rodeo performances in which a flank strap is cinched around a horse’s waist to make it buck.
From Los Angeles Times
Lamontre Hosley, one of the fabled Compton Cowboys, thrilled the crowd on a bucking bronco for seconds that felt to me like agonizing minutes.
From Los Angeles Times
“Just look at the record of what’s happened to former speakers and former majority leaders. It’s pretty hard to ride that bucking bronco longer than about six or seven years.”
From Washington Post
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