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:

  • The colorful, tree-lined Place Jacques-Cartier makes a good point from which to start a walking tour (or a riding tour in a horse-drawn calèche available here for hire).

  • Bus is clipped from omnibus , which means for everybody in Latin: it was a slang term for the horse-drawn public transport of the early 1800s.

  • 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.

  • (Apt names, actually: a chuffing steam train starting or stopping really does sound like an excited horse; and the earliest railway carriages, like the earliest motorcars, looked very much like their horse-drawn counterparts, having been built by the same craftsmen.)

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


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