horse
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The horse might be better now than he was at 7 or he was at 6.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“To be even mentioned in the same breath as a horse like Kelso ... that’s something that only happens once in a lifetime.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The horse jokes will retreat into the great digital stable where memes go when their moment has passed.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Then came illustrated guides purporting to explain how an anxious shopper might distinguish horse meat from cow meat by color, texture, fat and smell.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Then, one day, giant Malambruno, a wizard, came riding a wooden horse and turned Antonomasia into a bronze monkey and Clavijo into a crocodile of an unknown metal.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
He owns a ranch for breeding race horses and has frequented the Texas charity circuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
There is also evidence that, almost simultaneously, another arm of the federal government was allowing inexpensive wild horses to enter a chain that could end at foreign slaughterhouses.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The five women who claim they were mis-sold horses by Hopkins told the BBC they viewed the animals but didn't have a pre-purchase examination by a vet.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Knightsbridge had a short lead as the two horses passed the mile marker, and when they straightened out in the stretch, the race was over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Although it is being pulled by four horses instead of the usual six, this is a New Hampshire-built Concord stagecoach, somewhere in Chile at about the time that Phineas Gage arrived there.
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
He horsed around so much during rehearsals, however, that Mr. Morley suggested he turn to comedy.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
They horsed around, tossing and fetching each other’s sticks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015
It was a good deed; but the Rider was soon horsed again.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
“This group was loosely spread and very socially active with lots of splashing and horsing around,” the center reported.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
"We had some guys horsing around at pregame meal and he got hurt," Lloyd said.
From Fox News ● Jan. 16, 2022
She wants them to know that there is nothing to fear, she wants to offer up a pale white woman horsing with the language to show them it’s fine to mess it all up.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
