quarter horse

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Recent Examples of quarter horse Riding through the festival crowd on horseback to her Saturday evening set on the Great Northern Stage, Ferrell hopped off the quarter horse, immediately strapped on an acoustic guitar and went right into a jam with her band. Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for quarter horse 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarter horse
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
  • Her competitive spirit prompted her to try her hand in various events throughout North Texas, including an equestrian and cutting horse competition in January, the Dallas Observer reports.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 2 May 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Composite full fenders help keep splashes at bay, there are mounts for front and rear accessories, and a kickstand for parking ease.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Chaos mounts as day turns into night in the hours before Christmas.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Currently, guests can save up to 30% on longer stays of two nights or more, with additional long-stay perks including a complimentary golf clinic, a complimentary yoga session, and access to tennis, squash, and pickleball court, the children's village, and the pony park.
    Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Grande completed the look with her signature pony tail, a shimmering, choker-style necklace and black square-toed pumps.
    Maggie Clancy, WWD, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One other factor is that there will likely be fewer deaths because the foal crop is in serious decline, meaning fewer racehorses.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 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
  • Krispy Kreme said the hack will probably hurt its bottom line because of a loss of revenue from the disruption to online ordering, paying for cybersecurity experts and the cost to restore its systems.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The background explanation is all well and good but irrelevant because the Sony hack isn’t your ordinary circumstances.
    Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 11 Dec. 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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“Quarter horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarter%20horse. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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