bridle

One of his greatest assets is at the half-mile pole you could tell from the tenor in his voice if he spotted a horse that was up in the bridle had a big chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

But nations including South Africa and Colombia bridle at what they see as an implicit choice.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023

Cradling a 3D printed copy of a horse skull from Mongolia, Taylor points to a groove midway along the long, sloping nose, caused by pressure from a bridle.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023

Without a bridle he had no control whatever over the runaway.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

She refers to Isaac as “Latin-X,” to his disgust, and bridles when Alan casually complains that a student objected when he said a movie was “lame.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

After unloading his cargo of leather products like saddles and bridles, Captain Bowles would return to Philadelphia in a few weeks, then make his regular run back to Portsmouth in July.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

And he bridled when he was called in for a follow-up interview that he said involved the same questions.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

At Tuesday’s Senate committee hearing, Crapo bridled at what he called “the blame-shifting game” that pointed to his 2018 bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Satin had his horse saddled and bridled and waiting for him, a fiery grey courser with a mane as black and shiny as maester’s ink.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

In her autobiography, Dede Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

European Union privacy and competition regulators have been far more aggressive than their U.S. counterparts in bridling the tech giants.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller