mustang

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Recent Examples of mustang Ocracoke is home to a herd of Wild Banker Horses that are the descendants of Spanish mustangs that ended up on the island after a shipwreck several hundred years ago. Staff Author, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2025 Federal officials are on the hunt for those responsible after a trio of wild mustangs were found shot dead in southwestern Utah. Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025 Several people who follow the plight of wild mustangs in Utah and across the west shared memories of the horses in the comments. Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025 Like Westward Expansion, half of Austin came out to see Chappell Roan in a great migration saddled up on pink ponies instead of mustangs. Deborah Sengupta Stith, Mars Salazar, Lily Kepner, Ramon Ramirez, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mustang
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Noun
  • The group delivered solid material that rarely fell flat, building on Garrett’s wild bronco ride out of the starting gate.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Its new country competitor, 107.1 Hank FM (formerly K-Hits), came out of the gate looking like a bucking bronco last spring.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The 5 Star Farm petting zoo — which has events listed on its website dating back more than 15 years — features animals like camels, ponies, llamas and more, according to its website.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
  • The dead included a Nepalese citizen and a local Muslim pony ride operator.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no better example of that than in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic, featuring the unbeaten mare Zenyatta.
    Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The book warns that cheese made from dog milk would cause a woman to deliver her baby prematurely and also notes that in some places, cheese was made from the milk of camels, mares and donkeys.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While left alone for an hour, the younger sibling ignored all warnings and put Willow in the stallion's paddock.
    Lydia Patrick, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • But even we weren’t prepared for the moment when Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) discovers that her handsome new husband, Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), is a stallion.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Getty Images Notably absent from the race, however, was Sovereignty, the 3-year-old colt who won the Kentucky Derby.
    CBS News, CBS News, 17 May 2025
  • Trainer Michael McCarthy saddled the 3-year-old colt to a masterful win Saturday in 1 minute, 55.47 seconds.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Averill got started in horse racing the same year that Werth was cashing in on U.S. Jets, partnering on a gelding named Fun n’ Gun that year.
    Dana O'Neil, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • In this year's Derby, Hernandez will be riding Burnham Square, the bay gelding who won last month's Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky and Florida's Holy Bull Stakes in February and was given 12-1 odds in the morning line.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • American Promise was a late foal and is just now maturing into the horse to beat for this race, in my opinion.
    Brian Hamilton, NBC news, 1 May 2025
  • In the pasture, the foal bows her knees, testing the earth’s firm handshake, spring’s promise renewed in the stretch of her legs – a motion both fresh and familiar.
    contributing Monitor poets, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The horse race is for 3-year-old fillies on Friday, a prelude to the Preakness.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
  • The favorite in this year’s field is Good Cheer, an undefeated filly going for her seventh win in Friday’s Grade 1 gallop.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 May 2025

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