How to Use warhorse in a Sentence

warhorse

noun

• The warhorses are coming to town and von Oeyen is ready for them.
  — Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 18 Jan. 2018
• The same brisket couldn’t help that old bar warhorse, potato skins, cooked too hard to cut with a fork.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2018
• As the story goes, the width of a railroad is set at 4 feet, 8.5 inches, or the width a Roman warhorse.
  — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
• Great timing for the trailer for this remake of the Frank Herbert warhorse to drop.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
• There is a good reason why certain warhorses still ride the range.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• The soundtrack puts Kiss and ZZ Top and other classic rock warhorses to work.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Those warhorses carry on the pretense of caring about meat.
  — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 24 May 2017
• It’s not easy to freshen a warhorse as oft ridden as Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.
  — Dallas News, 29 Oct. 2022
• No More’s approach to the Allmans’ music reflects another way of putting a fresh coat of paint on a warhorse band.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2022
• Standards are what Bublé does best — and back then, those warhorse songs drove the holiday-music market.
  — Chris Molanphy, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Not to mention that TV is proving that there are still signs of life in the old warhorse formula (see: The Afterparty).
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
• The easygoing country warhorse makes his first Detroit visit in eight years.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
• Working his magic on the ground and through the air, DePaul rumbled like a warhorse and delivered like a big time playmaker.
  — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
• So how to make this old warhorse gallop like the thoroughbreds that vex the inveterate gamblers in the show’s opening number?
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
• Predictability is their business, and warhorses are their stock-in-trade.
  — Paul Hodgins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2018
• In the end, my list was short and solid: blood orange, Spanish lemon (not to be confused with Egyptian lemon, which was less smoky), rosemary—a warhorse of the gin trade, and none the worse for that—and cubeb pepper.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Spielberg and Kushner were right to bring modern attitudes to this beloved warhorse.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2021
• But this warhorse of a format – its roots date back to the mid-1950s – has continued to evolve, responding to changes in the cultural temperature.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• Everyone, that is, but the unflappable soloist, Vadim Gluzman, who rode the Russian warhorse to victory.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• Presented with a phalanx of warhorses like that, you can be forgiven for thinking there must be a glue factory not far down the road.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• That was a revelatory performance of an old warhorse; perhaps this will be, too.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 4 Feb. 2018
• However, those were small missteps in what was overall an engrossing perspective shift for the warhorse opera, one that cast new light on many of its calling cards.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• The old eight-engined warhorse has been in continuous service ever since, flying combat missions over the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
• The powerful had such markers, from the turfed tumuli of ancient warriors, crammed with daggers and warhorses, to the chest-tombs and weeping-angel memorials of the Victorians.
  — 1843, 21 May 2020
• Kakutani is nearly tied with the dance critic Jennifer Dunning, whose prose, like Kozinn’s, is dominated by the names of local venues and repertory warhorses.
  — Andrew Kahn, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
• One of her preferred motifs was that abstractionist warhorse, a pattern of stripes—structural or decorative, take your pick.
  — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
• As part of its private brand reset, Macy's junked six minor brands that had run out of steam, and will focus on the warhorses that chief executive officer Jeff Gennette says still have a lot of life in them.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2020
• Each time, the warhorse returned to combat an often-unseen enemy lurking somewhere below.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
• Under normal circumstances, a warhorse like the Fifth might solicit a more routine account, but there was nothing routine about this occasion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• As head of Lilly's early-stage psychiatric drug development in the late '90s, Potter saw that even durable warhorses like Prozac, which had been on the market for years, were being overtaken by dummy pills in more recent tests.
  — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2009

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024