How to Use colt in a Sentence

colt

noun

• The undefeated colt drew the rail in the 12-horse field.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 4 Nov. 2021
• And then the colt seemed to come apart, crumpling to the ground and tossing Gaffalione.
  — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• The cause of the death was still pending on the unraced 3-year-old colt.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
• The colt picked up a win last month at the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 6 May 2022
• The colt has three wins and three seconds in his six races.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 May 2022
• Alas, Leon and his colt finished a neck short of the winner.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• The colt ran at the tail of the field for most of the race before closing to a sixth-place finish.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2022
• His 15 length win two starts back came against a colt who has won twice and both on the turf.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• Just over four weeks later, the 3-year-old colt was dead.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
• The colt’s lone victory came by 7.5 lengths at the Fair Grounds on Dec. 3.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• The two scientists missed watching the colts hatch and grow.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• But after winning the Run for the Roses at 80-1, the colt was held out of the Preakness Stakes.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2022
• On the day of the Jerkens Memorial, the colt bounced out of the gate and led every step of the seven-furlong sprint.
  — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some had wondered how the 4-year-old colt would do going around two turns for the first time.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• The colt, who was scratched the day of the Kentucky Derby, is the early favorite for the Belmont Stakes.
  — Beth Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• This season has been special for the 4-year-old colt trained by Bill Mott.
  — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
• Flavien Prat will be aboard, the fifth different jockey for the colt.
  — James Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• The strapping dark brown colt just can’t be brought to believe that there is such a thing as a close race.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• The colt was all set to be one of the favorites in the Kentucky Derby but spiked a fever two days before the race and was scratched.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Five weeks ago, the colt shocked the horse racing world by taking the Run for the Roses as an 80-1 long shot at Churchill Downs.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 June 2022
• He was corralled and no one, including the colt, was hurt.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2022
• Before long, their colts peeped through the tall grass, begging for food and learning to dance.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Bill Mott, who trained Country House, said the colt had developed a cough.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• The colt has not raced since finishing third two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• This colt is a consistent check-casher and will be charging at the end.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• The colt paid $10.00 to win for trainer Kelly Breen and jockey Jose Ortiz.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• The fragile colt was weak and underweight, deaf, couldn’t walk on his deformed hooves and was about the size of a housecat.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• Late defections give this late-running colt a ticket to the Big Show.
  — Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• But a 3-year-old colt almost stole the show on Ladies Day — the penultimate day of Del Mar’s 82nd summer meeting.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• Bob Baffert, who trained the 3-year-old colt, released a statement noting that the horse died from a heart attack.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024