rocking horse
Example Sentences
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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
She stacks up miniature versions of banal furnishings — a chair, a sofa, a rocking horse — glued one on top of the other.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
"His first Christmas present was a rocking horse, for his second I got him a pony, and he's never looked back."
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023
Among the items lost to the fire were original paintings, photographs from her childhood and an antique rocking horse that, according to family lore, Richard Nixon rode on as a baby.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022
No porcelain rocking horse, the one Mom always put at the tip-top of the tree so no one could break it.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
