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How to use equine in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, noun

Equine means of, relating to, or reminiscent of horses. Example: “When one considers these vital parts of the equine anatomy and the stresses placed upon them, it’s a tribute to the horse’s physical make-up that there aren’t more injuries.”

Examples of equine by meaning

adjectiveOf, relating to, or reminiscent of horses.

  • When one considers these vital parts of the equine anatomy and the stresses placed upon them, it’s a tribute to the horse’s physical make-up that there aren’t more injuries.2002 April 1, Les Sellnow, “Tendons and Ligaments”, in The Horse.com
  • The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer, →ISSN

More sentences with equine

  • Elliot put his frightless eyes near mine and gave an equine snort.2015, Steve Toltz, Quicksand. From the entry frightless
  • Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself.2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism. From the entry artsome
  • Except for its four leggish bits there it has no equine mannerism, structure, or demeanour.2002, Rachel Bush, The Unfortunate Singer. From the entry leggish
  • "One can hardly avoid seeing it along roads," he told the equine council in a speech.2002 August 26, Helen Carter, “Livestock at risk as weed thrives”, in The Guardian. From the entry equinologist
  • Many a seaman’s life may have depended on equine speed and strength.1900, Alan C. Jenkins, Introducing Horses, London: Spring Books. From the entry maroon
  • Ark at ee, it’s our old friend MARK ‘NOT THAT ONE’ OWEN, the moribund boss of troubled equine charity HorseWorld!2014 February 4, “Jooohn Ag”, “Failed Charity Boss Announces 2014 Tour! Unionised Workers Not Invited!”, in The Bristolian, archived from…. From the entry 'ark at 'ee
  • There was a second prong to Bill′s in-the-dark equine hit-outs.2011, H. G. Nelson, My Life in Shorts, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry hit-out
  • His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
  • You could also build an equine swimming pool, but probably not at the same time as paying for grad school ;-).2000 June 19, Deborah Stevenson, “Re: Jazz has arthritis =( -- advice sought”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry horseable
  • As for the women, I believe Catherine Zeta-Jones might not be equine, and is, in fact, quite representational of Welsh women.1999 June 16, Martin Phillips, “Re: "Wales is a gay nation"”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry cariad
  • He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden.1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171. From the entry alicorn
  • This equicidal virus, which causes equine and human outbreaks, also has clinical characteristics which distinguish it from the sylvatic type.1976, Animal Health: Programs and Trends in the Americas, 1976, page 81, column 1. From the entry equicidal
  • This plainly implies that an equine animal either is of the feminine gender or is of the neuter persuasion.1967, Taxes. The Tax Magazine, volume 45, number 2, page 698. From the entry persuasion
  • Astride his trusty equine colleague, he went from kingdom to queendom and from dukedom to duchessdom, asking for names and phone numbers.1998, Marina Yaguello, Trevor Harris, “The Miser and the Prodigal Son: Lexical meaning”, in Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring…. From the entry duchessdom
  • There are “snowhorses,” not otherwise described in detail, that might be more than just ordinary equines bred for service in the winter.1983, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 65, page 40, column 1. From the entry snowhorse
  • I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground.1948, John Edward Hance, Better Horsemanship, page 73. From the entry nappy

Meaning of equine

  1. adjective Of, relating to, or reminiscent of horses.
  2. adjective Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus, including horses, donkeys, mules, zebras, and others.
  3. noun Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.

Full definition of equine

Questions about equine in a sentence

How do you use equine in a sentence?
Equine is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “When one considers these vital parts of the equine anatomy and the stresses placed upon them, it’s a tribute to the horse’s physical make-up that there aren’t more injuries.”
What is a short sentence with equine?
“There was a second prong to Bill′s in-the-dark equine hit-outs.”
What does equine mean?
Equine means of, relating to, or reminiscent of horses.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: equine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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