mustang

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Recent Examples of mustang 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 Get up go to work and come home, maybe buy a mustang ... Carl Weiser, The Enquirer, 29 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 town is located near both Mount Rogers and the Grayson Highlands State Park, known for its miniature ponies that roam the grounds.
    Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Also discovered was a cauldron and a bowl that might have been used to mix wine, as well as ceremonial spears, bridle bits and elaborate horse harnesses for at least 14 ponies.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • After more than an hour, the group had freed the mare from the mud, Nixon said.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 29 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
  • Trainer Michael McCarthy was not available to talk to reporters Sunday but praised his colt’s effort to rally into the lead briefly before Sovereignty, the 7-1 third choice, overtook him in the stretch and won by 1 1/2 lengths.
    Gary B. Graves, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2025
  • The colt will break from the No. 8 post, which has seen nine winners at Churchill Downs.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • There are two mint julep cups for whiskey fans to purchase, with all proceeds going to benefit Our Mims Retirement Haven, a farm outside of Paris, Kentucky, where fillies and broodmares can spend their golden years (it’s named after 1977 Eclipse Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, Our Mims).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
  • This year’s cups are meant to honor a trio of winning fillies: Regret (1915), Genuine Risk (1980), and Winning Colors (1988).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025

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