stallion

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Recent Examples of stallion As Extinct Animals notes, one such attempt was quashed when a lone stallion killed itself after losing its temper and bashing its own head into a wall. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 There are also beautifully observed moments toward the end with Dorotea and Riccardo; and a moving reckoning with death when Mariano’s favorite horse, a stallion named Elvis, is felled by illness and the president refuses to end his suffering by having the animal put to sleep. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025 Taming — but not eliminating — Maye’s wild stallion impulses will be a major part of McDaniels’ job this season. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025 Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed. Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stallion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stallion
Noun
  • The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • All five were of the same mare, shot between the 1860s and 1870s in the Zoological Society of London’s Zoo — making her both the first and last quagga ever photographed.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Crossing the finish line at odds of 18-1, this seven-year-old gelding shook up the world in more ways than one.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • However, the 7-year-old gelding has won the track’s top summer grass race for older horses – the Grade II Del Mar Handicap – three straight years.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • The colt has earned just shy of $4 million and the only horses to beat him since his debut are likely to be the top two choices in the Classic – Sovereignty (Kentucky Derby and Belmont) and Fierceness (Pacific Classic).
    Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The colt doesn’t know the racetrack he was bred for – the pride of Ruidoso – lies in ruins for the second year running, gutted by floodwaters that turned familiar dirt into a sucking bog of mud.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And coupled with Bottle of Rouge’s upset victory Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante – Baffert’s 12th win in the fillies’ 2-year-old championship race – Baffert has now swept the juvenile titles two straight years and eight times since 1996.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In some cases, weight gain or subtle behavior changes may be the only hints before the foal arrives.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Resolute Racing also stables Eclipse award winner Goodnight Olive, racehorse Just A Touch, and dozens more yearlings, foals and two year olds in training.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The giant steeds guarding the entrance are set to ride into the sunset this fall.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In Galaxy 2, Mario can hop on his trusty dinosaur steed and leverage Yoshi's unique abilities while traversing the inventive planetoid stages.
    Jeffrey L. Wilson, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Samaritan’s Purse also has 11 major construction projects in Israel, including two ambulance response stations, nine community centers with bomb shelters, and an equine therapy center for youth.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Despite his initial skepticism, Wes is desperate to return to the ice and decides to give equine therapy a shot.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Stallion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stallion. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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