foxhunt

How To Use foxhunt In A Sentence

• The examples are legion: caretaker, steamroller, gag, passing the torch, and domino theory are among them, though whip (abbreviation of the foxhunting term whipper-in) is not metaphorical in the sense often erroneously supposed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
• A Foxhunting vote in the lobbies now has been timely set to try and lessen the blow of bad rail failures and the push for oil in Afghanistan.
• So maybe it's not so much a foxhunt, more a variant of polo. Times, Sunday Times
• Royal participation in foxhunting is more likely to come to the notice of the media than other types of hunting, because hunts are often open to the public and always take place in well-populated areas.
• Foxhunting carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison or a £5,000 fine.
• Indeed Foxhunting didn't start until about the 1830's as most hunts believed it to be beneath their status to hunt ‘vermin’.
• The night before the hunt, foxhunters cover up any earths and badger setts to make sure that the foxes have to run until exhausted.
• By the late thirteenth century, King Edward I had a royal pack of foxhounds but it was not until several centuries later that foxhunting was generally taken up by the nobility.
• It was especially galling for the locals because not only did Jane Seymour spend most of her time in Malibu, meaning that she was effectively letting strangers irresponsibly ruin the peace and quiet, but the noise also shattered the concentration level of each of the participants in the recent Bath And Wells 'Why Immigrants Should Be Burnt' foxhunt and chili cook-off. Very Posh People Get The Strop With Dr Quinn Medicine Woman
• Once, during a foxhunt at Peterhof, he grimaced in pain after leaping into the saddle. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871