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horse race

NOUN
  1. a contest of speed between horses; usually held for the purpose of betting

How To Use horse race In A Sentence

  • You can miscall a horse race right once upon a time. Poll: More Dems Think Hillary Is Running The Most Positive Campaign
  • Let's not forget this is still a two-horse race. Times, Sunday Times
  • I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • It is not as if it is a two-horse race, either. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bet on horse races that have already been run. The Sun
  • If Prudie's beloved showed up in a skirt and pumps, she would probably wind up in a dead faint, but that's what makes horse races, no?
  • With my luck, I'd lose if I backed the only horse in a one horse race.
  • With a guaranteed 50 per cent coverage during the campaign in a two-horse race, it would be next to impossible not to get enough votes to qualify for State funding.
  • Leeds had won 2-0 at Chelsea nine days previously and a victory at Highbury might have turned the Premiership into a two-horse race with Manchester United.
  • A newspaper holds a 700 mile horse race, and the usual suspects apply: the comely lady of the night, the young upstart, the grizzled veteran and, err, the animal advocate?
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