horse
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“I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I think there were ramifications with the decision and still there’s uncertainty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
One man rides a draft horse dragging a wooden harrow, weighted down by a boulder, to break up the soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"She was a horse lover from I think the age of like five or six," Joanne said.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
While receiving care at St Barnabas House in Worthing last month, she told the hospice's staff she would love to touch a horse and experience the "horsey smell" again.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Caesar turns his horse, galloping straight at us.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
I do Pilates and also ride horses for workouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Celebrity Traitors 2 cast: Who are this year's 'big dogs' and dark horses?
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Also offered: a straw maze, pumpkin decorating, a petting zoo, giant rocking horses, slides and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He once told a lobbyist who raised quarter horses that he owned a herd of polo ponies, just to one-up him.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He could use a man who is experienced with horses.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
They horsed through the phases, giving everything but getting nothing.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
They shaved outside, cooked barbecues, horsed around on the bus to the games.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020
She began attending her older brother’s ice hockey games in Maryland not long after she was born and would watch, fascinated, from a young age while other siblings horsed around.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019
The boys horsed around with a sapling, pulling on its branches and laughing in the sunlight.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
But the main strength of the Rohirrim that remained horsed and able to fight, some three thousand under the command of Elfhelm, should waylay the West Road against the enemy that was in Anórien.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
A group of older kids were horsing around and shoving each other into the pool.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
In between spurts of dancing and horsing around, the girls hustled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
"I was always in trouble for horsing around . . . acting came second nature to me."
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
Israeli boys and Palestinian boys can spend the whole day horsing around, scrambling up rocky jetties and plunging into the water again and again and again.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
She's not little enough any more to go stark staring mad in the toy department, but she enjoys horsing around and looking at the people.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
