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How to use horseman in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Horseman means a man who rides a horse. Example: “How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?”

Examples of horseman by meaning

nounA soldier on horseback, especially a cavalryman.

  • A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase.1989 [1988], Karl Jettmar, “The art of the Steppes”, in The History of Art, Blitz Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62
  • At this, the Shan-yü, leading over 100,000 horsemen through the fortifications, entered at the fortification of Wu-chou 武州.2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China, volume II...

More sentences with horseman

  • How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?From the entry headless
  • Actor Glenn Ford loved Western movies and became an excellent horseman and gunhandler.2013 August 28, Scott Dyke, “Meandering the Mesquite: GLENN FORD — The Forgotten Movie Star”, in Green Valley News. From the entry gunhandler
  • He was without exception the clumsiest and most mutton-fisted horseman I have ever observed.1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 108 (Faber…. From the entry mutton-fisted
  • Best horseman this side of the black stump, Ric is.1961, Gwen Meredith, Into the Sun, page 7. From the entry this side of the black stump
  • Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.1908, William MacLeod Raine, Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West. From the entry potshot
  • "Like Ben Bamsey," said the horseman.1920, Eden Phillpotts, Orphan Dinah. From the entry tootlish
  • The disciple made a most splendidiferous shy right across the road, and, if you had not been something of a horseman, you would have been off that trip.1922, Evan Richard Calthrop, The Horse, as Comrade and Friend - Edition 3, Hutchinson & Co. - Paternoster Row - London, page 106. From the entry splendidiferous
  • Within, among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair with the incongruous air of a horseman bestriding a heavy mount.1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company. From the entry furbelow

Meaning of horseman

  1. noun A man who rides a horse.
  2. noun A soldier on horseback, especially a cavalryman.
  3. noun A man skilled in horsemanship, especially an equestrian.

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Questions about horseman in a sentence

How do you use horseman in a sentence?
Horseman is used as a noun. For example: “How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?”
What is a short sentence with horseman?
“"Like Ben Bamsey," said the horseman.”
What does horseman mean?
Horseman means a man who rides a horse.

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