quarter horse

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Recent Examples of quarter horse Dixon-Simmons and her quarter horse, Penny, took the mail on its last leg from the Discovery Park and arrived in Old Sacramento at 4:27 p.m., completing her 34th year with the National Pony Express Association. Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024 Some 20 other quarter horses, along with a donkey and pig, roamed the pens behind the barn and arena. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024 Horse cavalries: The lineup of horses in this year’s parade will include quarter horses carrying a platoon-sized unit of soldiers, the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales and pinto American Saddlebreds drawing a medieval carriage and its riders. Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2024 Long known for Hereford cattle and quarter horses, Babbitt Ranches stretches over 700,000 acres of private and leased public land. Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quarter horse 
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Noun
  • Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, private livery tours, drive-yourself carriages and saddle horses will still be available but will have alternate routes to avoid the Arch Rock.
    Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Devil was a saddle horse ridden by Maj.
    Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • The supermodel competed in a few cutting horse events earlier this year, pocketing over $13,000 in winnings.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
  • In her 50s, Buckley started riding cutting horses, which are trained to separate a cow from its herd.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 July 2019
Noun
  • Pressure mounts in Israel for hostage deal The articles were published days after six Israeli hostages were found dead in a tunnel in Gaza, sparking Israeli protests and outrage at Netanyahu, who the families of some hostages see as sabotaging a cease-fire deal for his own political gain.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The 150 lumens, the ability to focus or broaden the beam with a simple adjustment, and the easy-swivel mount combine to do a great job lighting up the trail.
    Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Kim and her pint-sized cutie get acquainted with a miniature pony.
    Maria Yagoda, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The chief animal protagonists in this story are two dogs and a polo pony.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
  • These pastures raise many of the state’s famous Kentucky Derby racehorses.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • What election narratives are foreign actors pushing? Expect false tales of voters tampering with mail-in ballots, non-citizens casting ballots and hacks of election infrastructure in social media posts.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And, blockchain technology provides a robust security framework, reducing the risk of hacks and data breaches.
    Gary Weinstein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021

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