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How to use foal in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Foal means a young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old. Example: “The stallion got with foal three out of four mares.”

More sentences with foal

  • The stallion got with foal three out of four mares.From the entry get with
  • The world can be a dangerous place for fox kits, flaminglets, armadillo pups, and zebra foals.2024, Dawn Huebner, Facing Mighty Fears About Being Apart From Parents, page 13. From the entry flaminglet
  • You saw yourself as a “starter woman.” A recently hatched egg foundling foal fawn.2023 September, Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche, Easthampton, Mass.: Small Beer Press, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry Tit Tac
  • The only well described viral enterocolitis in horses is rotaviral diarrhea in foals.2009, Nathaniel A. White, Equine Acute Abdomen, page 359. From the entry rotaviral
  • No age to be riding a horse foaled by an acorn, I can tell you.2003, Michael Crummey, River Thieves, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 272. From the entry ride a horse foaled by an acorn
  • The mare and her foals, as though executing a spirited folk dance, pranced with loud whickerings among the guests.1935, Mazo de la Roche, Young Renny. From the entry whickering
  • When both parents are brown, foals may be of any colour, also gray if one parent is rubican.1909, Burchard von Oettingen, Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice, page 331. From the entry rubican
  • The majority of foals, however, will likewise be brown.1909, Burchard von Oettingen, Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice, page 331. From the entry rubican
  • There are several kinds of hormones available that may help your mare to settle properly in case she is difficult to get in foal.2017, Jacob (Jack) Moorman, Living Legend, →ISBN. From the entry settle
  • The list is completed by the affri or draught-horses with their foals, and the capons, geese, and peacocks that were fattened for the lord's table.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
  • The foal papers are documents recording the horse's registration; no horse can start in any race unless his papers are in the hands of the track's identifier.2004, John McEvoy, Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track. From the entry identifier

Meaning of foal

  1. noun A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
  2. noun A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
  3. verb To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

Full definition of foal

Questions about foal in a sentence

How do you use foal in a sentence?
Foal is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The stallion got with foal three out of four mares.”
What is a short sentence with foal?
“The majority of foals, however, will likewise be brown.”
What does foal mean?
Foal means a young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

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