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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

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2016

When they opened their mouths to neigh, Aru saw that their teeth were tightly furled white buds.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

Come to our help, O Mithra, high lord, when the arrow hisses aloud and the horse neighs in his nostrils, and the missiles whizz, and the strings speed forth the sharp, bony arrows.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

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

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

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

Shadowfax lifted up his head and neighed, so that the stable shook, and they covered their ears.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2018

“When I started neighing instead of shouting, ‘Action!’ — well, that’s when I decided it was time for a change.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2013

The horses can smell the tiger scent and begin neighing and curvetting, trying to get away from it.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks