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The gruelling French farm tracks with their jagged cobblestones seem barely fit for a cow's hoof, let alone a Lycra-clad cyclists' thin tyre and ultra-light bike.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Foot-and-mouth causes fever and blisters near the hoof and in the mouth that prevent animals from feeding, as seen in the emaciated survivors.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Aged gray tree hunks form arches, for instance, over bridges that tower over clay-colored paths with hoof prints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Black cars filled with political leaders and CEOs who didn’t want to hoof it on foot clogged up the town’s two-lane main streets, where the typical year-round population is around 11,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

One day he got a chicken head in grease; another day an animal hoof, a few carrots on the side.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

She knows she can nail this role and she really hoofs it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

“There are scenes with galloping horses in the film, and the sound of the hoofs will match the rhythm of the music,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024

They’ve already had a decent penalty appeal turned down and now they had a free-kick right on the edge of the D. Tom Lawrence hoofs it straight into the wall.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2022

The side effects they dreaded were far more terrifying: blindness, deafness, ulcers, a gruesome skin condition called “cowpox mange” — even sprouting hoofs and horns.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2021

Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

The horses are characterised by their "large size, long legs, well-developed musculature, slender and elegant head -- set on a long, straight neck -- expressive eyes, high withers and sturdy hooves," he added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

If the clomping hooves from the first horseman’s approaching steed got too loud, we’d just turn the music up.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Cloven hooves had pressed into the soft mud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Plug’s hooves beat out a rhythm on the sod: Let them be safe.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson