horseshoe
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I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Some swear it’s a walrus mustache in the style of Wilford Brimley or Teddy Roosevelt, while others argue it’s a horseshoe version like the one worn by Hulk Hogan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
The smaller boy yells, “And who hits someone for just picking up a horseshoe crab?”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
How close is good enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and constitutional law under Bruen?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Beyoncé's rodeo rumbled into London, bringing with it every country cliché you could think of - cowboy hats, horseshoes, tassels and even a gold mechanical bull.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
At Alisal Ranch in Solvang, kids can hang out at the bar and paint horseshoes or take a riding lesson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024
He had never been quite sure about Major de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Towering stands horseshoed around the opener at Marco Simone Country Club, creating a cauldron that the American players seemed to struggle with, and they did not win that hole in the opening 12 matches.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
In both cases, he has accidentally horseshoed himself into spectacularly ill-informed opinions that nonetheless capture something of the contemporary zeitgeist.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
At the Masters, he horseshoed short putts to miss the cut while Tiger Woods ground out a limping resurgence on his surgically repaired leg.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023
The three-times European Ryder Cup member missed the chance for a “mulligan” — golf terminology for a free shot — when his short bogey putt horseshoed around the hole and hit his foot.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2019
Unfortunately for the 23-year-old from Forest, Va., his ball caught the left lip and horseshoed out, leaving the crowd stunned at the shockingly outcome.
From Golf Digest ● May 28, 2019
That’s out of this world, but Casey passes up the opportunity to salvage the half, his putt horseshoeing out.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021
Raffo was driving on Highway 530 to a horseshoeing job when the slide hit.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2019
“There is being in running shape and there is being in horseshoeing shape,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015
While Deborah was pregnant we lived in South Carolina so that I could go to horseshoeing school and then back to Atlanta for the birth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2013
Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
