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Even on the backside, it seemed like any other race day: Workers tended to horses who let out the occasional neigh.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

“A Naqqal edits his own scripts, directs the performance himself, and creates various characters. He does not hesitate to imitate the lion’s roar, the horse’s neigh, and the roar of the dragon.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

The nearly life-size stallion became a national — neigh, international — sensation this year when David Marriott pieced him together while in hotel quarantine.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

A blow for Matt Cast: zebras don’t neigh.

From The Guardian ● May 19, 2016

It was on its hind legs again in a moment, and its neigh was like a scream; it was all hoofs and teeth and eyes and tossing mane.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Yes, he neighs and whinnies and you can ride him and, as Woody notes, he gallops like the wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The natural vistas and the rhythmic clomping of the steed beneath you can indeed be lulling, but then suddenly Bismarck gets spooked by something and jerks and neighs.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2017

From 0930 in the morning to 1930 at night, the relentless patter of the auctioneer rat-a-tat-tats to the assembled throng against a backdrop of clip clops and yays and neighs.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2014

He has Denise play the girl, and he plays the horse, communicating only in whinnies and neighs.

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014

From the great corral came frightened neighs and whinnies from the ponies, that knew a terrible foe was at hand.

From The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn

Horses neighed in terror, dogs stared into space, transfixed by the tremors, and in Central Park, an Egyptian obelisk “trembled from apex to pedestal,” according to a New York Times article dated Aug. 11, 1884.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

He neighed and neighed, his high whinny carrying with the wind.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

The animals neighed at each other and sometimes raised up their front legs, causing fear and pandemonium. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

The horses neighed and slowed, but they couldn’t stop in time, and they collided into the first car. 

From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014

Svadilfari wheeled as he ran across the meadow, then he slowed, and reared, and neighed loudly.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

The cool girls are “horse girls” who gallop around the schoolyard neighing and whinnying, behavior that in America, I can report firsthand, rarely qualifies as anything remotely resembling cool.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

There’s one sound people think is a neighing horse, but it was a horn.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019

At that, Samson reared up, neighing horribly, his evil hooves clawing at the air in front of the Huntsman.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley