horse sense

Example Sentences

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More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

“End of the Rainbow” was rudimentary as a play, but Rader doesn’t even have Quilter’s dramatic horse sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2017

“One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

And I have a sense—not data, but the horse sense of a woman who knows her steed—that the sky’s-the-limit era of consumer cosseting at Amazon is over.

From Slate • May 30, 2014

She didn’t know what Dodger and his horse sense knew.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz