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:

  • Ride in a horse-drawn carriage along the Corniche next to the Nile at Luxor or Aswan — this high vantage point gives children a great view of what’s happening.

  • 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.)

  • Apart from the Citadel and Battlefields Park, every sight worth seeing is within easy walking distance, though you may like to try a 45-minute ride in a horse-drawn calèche (from the Parc de l’Esplanade).


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