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Example sentences for: saddle
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The Washington Post declared that Yeltsin is back in the saddle and is launching a much-needed second wave of economic reform.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.
The paper quotes a confidant of the as yet undeclared candidate in summing up the ferment: "the fires are burning as hot as the sun . . . it's saddle up and ride."
Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.