Example sentences for: mares

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

  • Cigar had mares lining up around the paddock.

  • At horse latitudes , the author has picked up the theory that it comes from “ golfo de las yeguas , `gulf of the mares,' which was the Spanish name for the ocean between Spain and the Canary Islands and compares the supposed fickleness of mares with the fickle winds in these latitudes.”

  • The mares did not come into foal.

  • Consequently, I did not expect much when I looked up my favorite entry, horse latitudes , for which Jeans repeats the conventional theory (to the effect that the Spaniards used to throw starving horses overboard when they were becalmed, which I maintain to be an incredibly poor fiction); he also brings in Golfo de las Yeguas gulf of mares, which I have been able to find, with the help of the Royal Geographical Society, only inland in Spain.


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