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

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

Inevitably, some Administration forces thought that McCarthy's move to unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chance might unhorse the individual, but with a community the element of chance was eliminated.

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