Example sentences for: horse-drawn

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

  • Thus, English has champac `tree' instead of campak, gharry `horse-drawn cab or carriage' instead of gari, darshan `a Hindu blessing' instead of darsan . A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur `variety of limestone' in lieu of kankar, mulmul `muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar `kind of crocodile' in lieu of magar . Dozens of similar examples could be cited.

  • But there is also the option of taking a carriage ride through the streets — there’s nothing more romantic than a horse-drawn carriage taking a stately route.

  • We can scarcely talk about motor vehicles without using words that originally applied to horse-drawn ones.

  • In horse-drawn carts you visit costumed villagers tilling and harvesting, sheep-shearing, grinding flour in the mill, weaving, and fashioning horseshoes in the smithy.

  • Dishwasher (appliance, not restaurant supernumerary), tape (magnetic, not sticky), and car (automotive, not horse-drawn) are three ready instances of this shift, but there are countless others.


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