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Even on the backside, it seemed like any other race day: Workers tended to horses who let out the occasional neigh.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

“A Naqqal edits his own scripts, directs the performance himself, and creates various characters. He does not hesitate to imitate the lion’s roar, the horse’s neigh, and the roar of the dragon.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

While Day’s half-time comments on the surface have very little to do with coronavirus, they epitomize the risks that unpaid college athletes are expected to, neigh compelled to, accept as part of day-to-day life.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2021

More neigh sauce: We can’t tell you the secret ingredient .

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2016

It was on its hind legs again in a moment, and its neigh was like a scream; it was all hoofs and teeth and eyes and tossing mane.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Yes, he neighs and whinnies and you can ride him and, as Woody notes, he gallops like the wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Eardrums drenched in the whirring neighs of 1,000 mechanical horses.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024

The natural vistas and the rhythmic clomping of the steed beneath you can indeed be lulling, but then suddenly Bismarck gets spooked by something and jerks and neighs.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2017

He has Denise play the girl, and he plays the horse, communicating only in whinnies and neighs.

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014

He ceased, and with a step of conscious pride regained his place among the crowd, from which came snickers of applause and neighs of praise.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell

Horses neighed in terror, dogs stared into space, transfixed by the tremors, and in Central Park, an Egyptian obelisk “trembled from apex to pedestal,” according to a New York Times article dated Aug. 11, 1884.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

After the Jets’ first three-and-out, I neighed and whinnied like a horse.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

The horses neighed and slowed, but they couldn’t stop in time, and they collided into the first car. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

The animals neighed at each other and sometimes raised up their front legs, causing fear and pandemonium. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard.Then they saw what Clover had seen.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The cool girls are “horse girls” who gallop around the schoolyard neighing and whinnying, behavior that in America, I can report firsthand, rarely qualifies as anything remotely resembling cool.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

They are the ghosts of our future, neighing for us to follow them.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2018

They’re sitting around the campfire, they’re tilting over and it’s so obvious – and then you hear a horse neighing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan