How to Use mare in a Sentence

mare

noun

• As in bull riding, the charro must stay on the mare's back.
  — AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• The mule is a hybrid; a cross between a male donkey and a mare.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Dec. 2020
• About two hours away from Salt Lake City, out in the sprawling desert, bands of wild mares and stallions roam free.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2023
• Sitting astride a calm chestnut mare, his eyes closed, the soldier draws in a deep breath.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• This 7-year-old mare has won five of 32 races lifetime, but is winless in two starts this year.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
• Posie, a bay mare, was led to McGaughy, who uses a wheelchair.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Sleepy mares, bellies swollen with foals ready to drop, stand napping on their feet in the early spring sun.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023
• Rescue crews wrestled the muscular mare named Moonie out of the mud.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Plains of hardened lava — the mare, or seas, of basalt — cover vast swaths of the surface, mostly on the near side.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Riding student Kai Crossland, 17, was supposed to ride Pinch the day the mare was found dead.
  — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2022
• In the arena, he was drawn immediately to Artemis, the oldest mare and the leader of the herd.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Taken by the boy’s affection for the quarter horse mare, Brown agreed.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2021
• The 5-year-old mare made a strong move deep in the stretch to win by half a length for trainer Jeff Mullins and jockey Hector Barrios.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• The 5-year-old mare has never finished out of the money in 11 starts and finished second in her last four races.
  — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2021
• The D’Amato-Brown rivalry will peak in the Matriarch — a one-mile run on the grass for older fillies and mares.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• That same year, my sport horse mare, Keeper, went belly-up in her training.
  — Nicole Bucala, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• Hall-of-fame trainer Bill Mott has had several big stakes wins with his fillies and mares the past two weeks.
  — Ed Derosa, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2023
• The mare is one of only three fillies to ever win a Kentucky Derby, achieving the feat in 1988.
  — The Courier-Journal, 24 Apr. 2023
• Foals born from obese mares are also predisposed to this same type of joint disease.
  — Jane Manfredi, Fortune Well, 25 July 2023
• After a morning grooming the brown mare and learning equine safety, this is the moment the day has been building to.
  — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• When she was given her mount, a beautiful mare named Jenny, the wind whipped sand from the seashore causing the horse to bolt and Olivia to land on a hard patch of ground.
  — Nancy Gould Chuda, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2022
• Is Cool, an elegant chestnut mare, and Your Just Jesse, a fiery quarter horse.
  — Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• In Norse mythology, Loki is a shapeshifter who has appeared as a fish, a fly and a mare — and gave birth to Sleipnir, Odin’s eight-legged horse.
  — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2021
• Gilster’s mare, Southern Classic, had just foaled a chestnut colt sired by Dialed In.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
• One horse present Wednesday was a magnificent gray/white mare named Delilah, who is about six-feet tall at the shoulders.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
• Here’s for a clean start from this fast mare, who is capable of defeating this field with some racing luck on her side.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Multiple trainers said the mare was being run in races above her level.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
• Others, such as paso de la muerte, require the charro to jump from his horse to a wild mare, while the other riders chase them around the arena.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The 6-year-old mare has won six-of-26 lifetime, including an ungraded stakes three back.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024