Example sentences for: horse

How can you use “horse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Every week the locals enjoy football and horse racing — the former is Hungary’s most popular spectator sport.

  • A motley crowd is hurrying by--workers in dungarees; a yogi with his followers; a noblewoman in purdah in palanquin; a group of nautch girls, attractive in their aniline-dyed dresses and bright bandanas, their bangles jingling and their long, shampooed hair streaming in the breeze; a sepoy all smart in khaki on his horse, his jodhpurs trim and neat; a scholarly pundit; a mahout on his elephant, ambling like a juggernaut.

  • Props are minimal and the action is subtle: an actor closes an invisible door with a mime gesture, and anyone walking with a riding crop must be understood to be mounted on a horse.

  • Leaning into the collar is working hard: imagine a horse straining against the collar to pull a heavy load.

  • Try the Latin aloud, the way it was meant to be read, and the hollow thump of a horse's gallop is in the sound as well as the meaning of Virgil's words.


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