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How to use bridle in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Bridle means the headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. Example: “A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.”

More sentences with bridle

  • A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.From the entry slip
  • I bridled and bristled, nettled and rankled, then drinkled and drankled some more.2009, Claire Kilroy, All Names Have Been Changed. From the entry drinkle
  • (vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section.2003, Alan R. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern…. From the entry manifer
  • He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump.1993, Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (illustrator), The Fields of Home, page 31. From the entry whang
  • The bridle should have a cavesson, instead of the usual noseband.1912, Belle Beach, Riding and Driving for Women, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. From the entry snaffle
  • It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination.2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry fangirl
  • Thurman caught the bridle headstall and cheeked the horse's head near his left knee when he swung aboard.2009, Dusty Richards, The Sundown Chaser. From the entry cheek
  • Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Oct 2012. From the entry bridle path
  • Horses with bells jangling on their bridles, which reminded her of Arthur, were pulling sledgefuls of tourists along the High Street.1993, Jilly Cooper, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, BCA, page 440. From the entry sledgeful
  • His death brings to light the thwarted ambitions, bridled emotions, unfulfilled loves, or unsatisfied wanderlusts of his surviving friends.1987, John Wilson Foster, “Betraying Presences: Fictional Tidings from Cork, Galway, and the Midlands—Daniel Corkery, Brinsley MacNamara…. From the entry wanderlust
  • But let's say the horse is neither head shy, nor rank, and you can bridle him without fuss.1975 September, Bill Tarrant, “The gun dog horse: part II”, in Field & Stream, volume 80, number 5, →ISSN, page 129. From the entry head shy
  • When he wasn't at work he was usually off to see a man about a horse or to buy a wigwam for a goose's bridle.1989, Di Brown, Angry Women: An Anthology of Australian Women's Writing, page 44. From the entry wigwam for a goose's bridle
  • Heart near bursting, I lightly slipped the bridle over Brother, seized his great (near) pinion, swung astride, was off before the guards reswarmed.1974, Barth, John, Chimera, Deutsch, page 192. From the entry reswarm
  • And behind the mare, or beside her, or else cavorting ahead, came a slim black colt, the fruit of her loins, without bridle or rope.c. 1950, Kay Boyle, “Adam's Death”, in Fifty Stories, 1992 edition, →ISBN, page 541. From the entry fruit of one's loins
  • Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son. From the entry bridle path
  • "We've got some oats, and after I dry him off and rub him down, I'll take a currycomb to him and get those witch's bridles out of his coat.2010 June 1, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman #344: Six-Gun Gallows, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry witch's bridle
  • A well known 'family saying' is the mysterious 'Wigwam for a goose's bridle', said by adults to curious children who ask once too often 'What are you making?'2003, Gwenda Davey, Graham Seal, A Guide to Australian Folklore, page 62. From the entry wigwam for a goose's bridle
  • Fish is especially critical of the “antiprofessionals,” a group of academics who bridle against the hierarchical, self-perpetuating, and isolated nature of the universities in which they work.1990, Columbia Law Review, volume 90, numbers 5-8, page 1455. From the entry antiprofessional
  • To attach the bridles, start measuring from the point on the gavel 16 metres from the floatline wheree you have seized the end of the leadline.1987, M. Ben-Yami, Purse-seining with Small Boats, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry leadline
  • Then the cavalry began to move off round the top of the wood, and Ophelia ushered him through the bridle gate, turning her own horse to shut it behind them.1934, T. H. White, chapter 10, in Earth Stopped, page 102. From the entry bridle gate

Meaning of bridle

  1. noun The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
  2. noun A restraint; a curb; a check.
  3. noun A length of line or cable attached to two parts of something to spread the force of a pull, as the rigging on a kite for attaching line.

Full definition of bridle

Questions about bridle in a sentence

How do you use bridle in a sentence?
Bridle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.”
What is a short sentence with bridle?
“Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.”
What does bridle mean?
Bridle means the headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.

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