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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

In another, Catherine answers he insult of the horse business by gamely grinning as she replies, "I wanted to. But the horse said no, and neigh means nay!"

From Salon ● May 15, 2020

They knew their jobs and did them with nary a peep, bark or neigh.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2019

The horse gave a short snort and neigh, then paced around the equestrian center, one of eight shelters for animals affected by the Sand fire. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2016

The horses whinny and neigh as the driver navigates the sharp turns and narrow lanes of the Imperial City of Trianon.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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

From 0930 in the morning to 1930 at night, the relentless patter of the auctioneer rat-a-tat-tats to the assembled throng against a backdrop of clip clops and yays and neighs.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2014

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

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014

Do you love a spurred horse rather than a ducker, that neighs and scrapes?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

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

“He is how the pilgrims used to travel back then,” said Ms. García-Inés as Óscar neighed outside the old stone inn where the travelers had stopped.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 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

The colt tried to get up on its feet, but its fragile newborn legs folded under it and it fell down, looking helplessly up at its mother who neighed a greeting to the morning sun.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

They started outside in the parking lot of the Clemente, galloping and neighing like horses.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

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

Merry and Pippin heard, clear in the cold air, the neighing of war-horses, and the sudden singing of many men.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien