How to Use horse-and-buggy in a Sentence
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Hire a horse-and-buggy ride to peruse the estate.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Cars mix with horse-and-buggy carriages on the road, many coming and going from the weekly Sale Day — a market spread over 10 acres with livestock, fruits and vegetables, flowers and other goods for available to purchase.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
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To Sanders and supporters, 7-OH represents pharmaceutical progress — an automobile compared with traditional kratom’s horse-and-buggy pace.
—Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
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Paved roads were largely exclusive to Metro Detroit in the early 20th century (the first concrete road was built in Motown in 1909) with out-state roads mostly dirt or gravel, co-traveled by horse-and-buggy.
—The Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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The National Football League (NFL) must overhaul its inconsistent, poorly-performing, horse-and-buggy refereeing system.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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