bridle
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Castro is accused of pulling on the bridle of one horse and grabbing the reins of another as mounted deputies moved toward a crowd of protesters to enforce dispersal orders on June 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
But nations including South Africa and Colombia bridle at what they see as an implicit choice.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
The first victory for Rummy, who is buried by the Aintree winning post, came 50 years ago and Minella Trump will have strands of the Aintree legend's mane woven into his bridle.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023
The man in the cloak hurriedly dropped Melyngar’s bridle and darted behind a tree.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Not having known much about the Camino before booking her trip, she sometimes bridles when fellow travelers share their knowledge along the route.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
But after Josiah went inside the shed to repair bridles, the old horse began to test them.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
His staff always bridled at the idea of him as an understudy or apprentice, pointing to his decades of achievement, of carving out a distinct role.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose vision of humane communism liberated millions, bridled the global arms race and knocked down the walls dividing East and West, has died, according to Russian news agencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The horses had been bridled and yoked to the car.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
This seemed to spook one of the horses, which started violently bridling, to snickers from the audience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
In her autobiography, Dede Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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