horse-trade
Example Sentences
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“A Rocky Mountain trade chain had carried horses to the Northwestern Plains by the 1730s. … The horse trade ignited a technological revolution that reconfigured several Indigenous worlds within a generation.”
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
Then, over the weekend, lawmakers agreed to an even more revealing horse trade.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2020
Some of the most heavily fished species are classified as threatened with extinction, but the sea horse trade, like everything else I’d seen in this market, is legal.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
The horse trade has its ups and downs – as I write this, it’s down, the worst in my lifetime.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
Remember that one never forgets being “taken in” in a horse trade, and when, instead of a horse a dog is involved, I think one never forgives as well.
From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Axtell, Edward
