horseback

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Recent Examples of horseback Horseback riders share the trails with hikers at Brett Woods, a 185-acre conservation area. Lisa Prevost, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017 See All Example Sentences for horseback
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horseback
Adjective
  • That week-long session became Dutch’s impromptu 2021 debut, Kindergarten.
    Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
  • These impromptu moments are key to career development.
    Eric Johnson, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Relatedly, many people become more open to spontaneous thinking in the evening, when the brain is less focused and inhibited.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 July 2025
  • This exhilarating transit could spark a need for spontaneous self-expression and creative freedom.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Modular Applications Modular applications, containers and microservices allow rapid cloud-native development and seamless deployment of features tailored to customer requirements.
    Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Trump had for months resisted pressure from Kyiv and NATO allies to turn the screw on Putin, engaging directly with Russia and distancing from Ukraine in the hopes that smoothing U.S. relations with Moscow would bring about a rapid end to the war.
    Shane Croucher John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • The internet, never one to wait for context, responded with swift certainty, and social feeds lit up with familiar refrains: Hill was late again.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The decision was met by swift condemnation and a legal challenge from San Francisco International Airport officials and its legal team which argued the new name would confuse travelers and was a copyright infringement.
    Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Astro was in the shelter for about two or three weeks before Nelson's spur-of-the-moment decision landed him in his forever home.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • The push and pull lends itself to some juicy dramatic tension, with Jacob even taking a punch to the face after a spur-of-the-moment kiss goes awry.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel (341 yards, two TDs, 27-yard rush TD) and Ohio State’s Will Howard (326 yards, two TDs, rush TD) were both brilliant.
    Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Others were rush jobs.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • So the new movie makes up for the original’s offhand poetry with speed and engineered rambunctiousness.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • The memo ended with an offhand aside about John A. McCone, the agency’s former director.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On a whim, Joe decides to oppose him, and recruits his fellow officers, Guy (Luke Grimes) and Michael (Micheal Ward), to help him with his admittedly slapdash campaign.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 19 May 2025
  • Mad About the Boy, an adaptation of the slapdash third novel that starts streaming on Peacock on February 13, keeps the trope-laden structure, but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horseback. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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