How to Use mare in a Sentence

mare

noun
  • Jean got up during the night to check on the mares that were ready to give birth.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Now the offensive line is a mare’s nest.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The mule is a hybrid; a cross between a male donkey and a mare.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The cream-of-the-crop stallions might breed with 200 mares in a year.
    Graham Cornwell, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • That mare has paid her way many times, packing elk quarters out to the nearest jeep road.
    Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Foals born from obese mares are also predisposed to this same type of joint disease.
    Jane Manfredi, Fortune Well, 25 July 2023
  • One that began with a pregnant mare shot and abandoned in a field, barely alive.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • This is the epitome of mare e montagna (mountain and sea).
    Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That same year, my sport horse mare, Keeper, went belly-up in her training.
    Nicole Bucala, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, his father walked round and round the mare, pressing gently along her spine.
    Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • Bred with stronger British mares, these thoroughbreds define the sport.
    Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 17 Feb. 2026
  • And Lilly is the kindest mare ever.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Winds picked up his lightweight horse barn, known as a mare motel, and threw it about 100 yards.
    Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Multiple trainers said the mare was being run in races above her level.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
  • Rescue crews wrestled the muscular mare named Moonie out of the mud.
    Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Posie, a bay mare, was led to McGaughy, who uses a wheelchair.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • Taken by the boy’s affection for the quarter horse mare, Brown agreed.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Researchers now believe the mare was inspired by sleep paralysis.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 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
  • Insulin can come from pig pancreases, estrogen from the urine of pregnant mares.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The mare collapsed, was unresponsive and died within a few minutes.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With the mare and foal doing well, the Chisholms’ next discovery was a wild mustang found starving itself.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • 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 most popular one back then was Premarin, which came from a pregnant mare’s urine, so horse estrogens.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026

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