unhorse

Example Sentences

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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood in his day.

From Time Magazine Archive

But a single touch of the magic lance was enough to unhorse them all, and one by one Bradamante sent them to their lord.

From The Red Romance Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)