stirrup

How To Use stirrup In A Sentence

• The last issue had a good letter from someone who signed himself ‘Conscript’, describing how he and his comrades were forced to waste their time in polishing brass, blacking the rubber hoses on stirrup pumps with boot polish, scraping broom handles with razor blades, and so on. As I Please
• Ian stood in his stirrups to look down into the penfold. Drums of Autumn
• He slipped his foot into the stirrup of the heavy black western saddle and placed his fingertips on the side of the horses' neck.
• They enter his office to be faced with a comfortable leather sofa and an examination couch, complete with stirrups.
• Other safety items are available that can be attached to reins, stirrups and martingales, as well as fluorescent saddlecloths and exercise rugs.
• Reptiles have a single ear ossicle, the stapes or stirrup bone.
• That was called the stirrup-horn, because after they drank it the men put their feet to the stirrups and sprang upon their horses and started. Viking Tales
• She leans into the turn, finely balanced, feet spraddled and pressing the stirrups.
• She needs a pair of jumar clamps and stirrups so that she can ascend the rope. The Wall
• These horsemen rode with short stirrups, in snaffle bridles with a loose rein, in an uncollected, free forward manner that was the exact opposite of the extreme collection of the Continental riding school, with its emphasis on curb bits.