quarter horse

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Recent Examples of quarter horse Rosas competes in rodeos and enjoys trail rides with her 5-year-old quarter horse, Timone. Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 The five who were euthanized Wednesday also were quarter horses. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Over the next 30 years, the steamboat captain, born the son of Irish immigrants in New York, built a ranching empire still known today for its beef cattle and quarter horses. Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025 Ware’s uncle, Carlos Pedraza, said the horse is a quarter horse. Tiffani Arnold, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for quarter horse
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Noun
  • The farm also had saddle horses, a team of Belgian draft horses that helped haul manure and feed, and plenty of chickens that supplied eggs for those big breakfasts every morning (followed by even larger dinners at noon and suppers in the evenings).
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, private livery tours, drive-yourself carriages and saddle horses will still be available but will have alternate routes to avoid the Arch Rock.
    Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • It is named after a champion cutting horse and features ostrich vamps, goat quarters and roses stitched into the leather.
    Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The model met the cowboy, who trains in Weatherford for cutting horse events, at a horse show.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Trump also directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury testimony, as pressure mounts from both critics and supporters demanding transparency.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday as concerns about fiscal spending mount ahead of an upper house election.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • Think amusement and pony rides, a parade, car show, craft fair, music, food, and beautiful butterfly releases.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
  • There were beautiful Indian women in halter tops with bubble ponies, Spanish dudes in Premier League jerseys, and heavily tattooed white guys.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The technology is good for injury recovery in both humans and animals, long been used in equine therapy for racehorses.
    Kristin Auble, Vogue, 10 July 2025
  • According to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, every horse who ran the race is a descendant of famed racehorse Secretariat.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Broadway theaters subsist on stunt-cast revivals of old warhorses; book publishers rely disproportionately on backlist sales.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • Considering its financial predicament and wealth of center backs, Barca could be tempted to sell the South American warhorse if a European rival tables his asking price.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • High-profile hacks, fraud and failures across the broader crypto ecosystem have shown that not every structure in this space honors Bitcoin's values.
    Carylyne Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • Could an attacker, maybe with access to your account passwords, really have pulled off the hack of the century?
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021

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“Quarter horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarter%20horse. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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