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 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

D'Artagnan furiously swings out on a rope to unhorse an adversary, only to swing right past both horse and rider and come down in a pool of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now let me say to you that you'll help me to count these cattle or I'll discharge, unhorse, and leave you afoot here in this country!

From Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories by Adams, Andy