light rein

Example Sentences

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Trainer Christy Galey, who lives with her family at Muleshoe, circles Ivy with a light rein in hand, talking quietly to 15-year-old Abby, both trainer and rider constantly locking eyes with Ivy’s.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2017

Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our quarrel with the mother country and our breaking away from her in spite of the extremely light rein she was driving us with, rested in reality upon very slender justification.

From A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge by Wister, Owen

But a light rein is needed for this wild ass of the West, Clayton.

From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard

Expecting the end to come soon, the governing powers in London had ruled with a light rein, consenting to one colonial demand after another for self-government.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas