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How To Use Cantering In A Sentence

  • The mare came cantering up, muzzle wet from the water she had been drinking moments before.
  • Dobbin is rescued from the (fence) stake to hie hill-ward with his master, cantering exultant or jogging grumly according to the result of the "event;" and the metropolis of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
  • A horse's movement and gait is completely different depending on whether it's cantering freely or under the control of a rider using a bridle.
  • She had been restricted to mostly trotting and cantering since she donkey-licked Bella Court at Awapuni.
  • The horses were cantering lightly, making small splashes of water around their hooves.
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  • The horse needs sufficient impulsion for the work that is being asked of him, i.e. cantering a 20 metre circle requires much less impulsion than performing a canter pirouette.
  • Black Beauty went cantering round and round the ring.
  • Cantering herds of zebra, eland and roan antelope scatter then coalesce as we drone over them.
  • She followed a cantering success in a Roscommon handicap with a smooth victory in a conditions event at Leopardstown ten days ago.
  • Cantering gracefully round the outdoor school, without a halter or lead rope, her ears are pricked forward and she calmly responds to voice and arm movement commands to slow down to a trot and halt.
  • And Close's nasty, shifting canterings with a shovel before he fells his unfortunate brother and humorously lops off his arm to acquire the ring were shiveringly unpleasant.
  • the cantering soldiers
  • She followed a cantering success in a Roscommon handicap with a smooth victory in a conditions event at Leopardstown ten days ago.
  • He had a little break from fast work, but he was cantering every day.
  • This handsome son of the Derby winner Shirley Heights looked a first-rate prospect when cantering home at Haydock.
  • ‘He doesn't like horses cantering up behind him, he's always been a little silly like that,’ laughed Tryon.
  • Black Beauty went cantering round and round the ring.
  • This handsome son of the Derby winner Shirley Heights looked a first-rate prospect when cantering home at Haydock.
  • As he rode from the store, the cantering of his horse’s hooves seemed to drum out the name Judd Boston. This Calder Range
  • Then came the horses and riders, cantering at a stately pace, clearly restrained by some mysterious hunt etiquette.
  • The wrought-up, quickened pulse I always felt to some extent when cantering down to the start of a race was unduly magnified, so that I could hear my own heart beating. Dead Cert
  • He was cantering down the trail towards them, his bald-faced sorrel kicking up dust.
  • OK, so a horsebox sounds about as glamorous as a portaloo, and, unless you are a pony-mad eight-year-old, the proposition of camping in one isn't likely to get a girl's heart cantering. My romantic break… in a horsebox
  • This year's fuelled by such high octane horsepower you'll need to pull in the reins and wear blinkers to avoid cantering off course in all directions.
  • The feeling is of a rider cantering up to a fence, and the horse three times refusing to jump it.
  • No one is suggesting that Ste-Croix's horses are mistreated, nevertheless there's something sad about seeing such noble beasts prancing and cantering around a cramped ring.
  • It took slow, wobbly steps, cantering to one side every time it stepped with its front left foot.
  • It means that for much of the race the horses are barely cantering and it is not the pace of the steeds but their courage and stamina that matters.
  • Moments later, Jean heard her brother's horse cantering into the woods towards town.
  • Most of the runners are off the bridle while Shergar is cantering.
  • Once, after they were tacked up, and out in the ring, trotting and cantering around, Lysander came up to watch them.
  • I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

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