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How to use steed in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Steed means a stallion, especially one used for riding. Example: “I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.”

Examples of steed by meaning

nounA bicycle or other vehicle.

  • I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

More sentences with steed

  • For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer. From the entry slip
  • And so the graafs mounted their huge steeds and fled, breaking through the enemy lines.2016, Daniel O’Malley, Stiletto, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.; London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry graaf
  • But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100. From the entry dragonfire
  • A horsemaster at heart, she finds instant enjoyment atop a fast steed.1968, 1968 Mirror, Waltham, Mass.: Waltham High School, page 81. From the entry horsemaster
  • They will elect a woman prime minister and “petticoat politics” will ride the government steeds astride.1927 April 25, “Tennyson’s Princesses. Chicago Herald Examiner.”, in The Ottawa Evening Citizen, 84th year, number 264, Ottawa, Ont., page…. From the entry prime ministress
  • They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward.1916 September, Effie Graham, “Too ‘Smaht’ to Live”, in Aunt Liza’s “Praisin’ Gate”, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 83–84. From the entry encarriage
  • Beneath him, his steed hooved the ground and snorted impatiently.2017, S.R. Betler, “The Wild Hunters”, in D.M. Kilgore, Lisa Shambrook, editors, Tales by the Tree: An Anthology of Holiday Flash Fiction…. From the entry hoove
  • The Lord of Blood, adorned with glossy armor and atop a stalwart steed, appeared to have the opulence of a king.2010, Rhett C. Bruno, Isinda: Fallen Dagger, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry coal
  • Instead of embracing on a ship's prow, Sully and Neyfiri ride their banshee steeds in ecstatic communion across the Pandoran sky.2009 December 14, Richard Corliss, “Corliss Appraises Avatar: A World of Wonder”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Pandoran
  • For that steed I would give anything.1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171. From the entry alicorn
  • Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry bestride
  • But what was the good of saying that to him when he was on his high horse — a very prancing steed?1920, Anthony Hope, Lucinda, page 273. From the entry prancing
  • Seemingly, however, the butcher's hungry steed lingered long over his evening meal, for it was almost ten before he paused at the Maitlands' unpretentious gate.1907, Harper's Bazaar - Volume 41, page 543. From the entry meatwagon
  • Here we usually find the caballero aiming his pistol in one direction while pointing his reined-in steed in another, as if ready to wheel and dash to safety.2007 January 26, Roberta Smith, “Outside In”, in New York Times. From the entry caballero
  • Ultimately, the ponies paid a price for their size and endurance – when government troops managed to catch up with them, they systematically destroyed the sturdy steeds.1997 November 30, Rutland Daily Herald, Rutland, Vt., page 103. From the entry equicide
  • Among them was the "West Country" driver, Swain, of Bude, over the Great Central, who reminded me irresistibly of a hunter putting a particularly mettlesome steed at the fences.1948 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 334. From the entry irresistibly
  • Then wheeling his black steed suddenly, he raced away before the dazed soldiers could get their wits together to send a shower of arrows after him.1931, Robert E. Howard, chapter 2, in Hawks of Outremer. From the entry wheel

Meaning of steed

  1. noun A stallion, especially one used for riding.
  2. noun A bicycle or other vehicle.

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Questions about steed in a sentence

How do you use steed in a sentence?
Steed is used as a noun. For example: “I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.”
What is a short sentence with steed?
“Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.”
What does steed mean?
Steed means a stallion, especially one used for riding.

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