neigh
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Even on the backside, it seemed like any other race day: Workers tended to horses who let out the occasional neigh.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
“A Naqqal edits his own scripts, directs the performance himself, and creates various characters. He does not hesitate to imitate the lion’s roar, the horse’s neigh, and the roar of the dragon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
More neigh sauce: We can’t tell you the secret ingredient .
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2016
EDT 05:50 A blow for Matt Cast: zebras don’t neigh.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2016
To make it worse, the cowboy explains horses here go neigh, neigh, neigh, not hee, hee, hee.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
Yes, he neighs and whinnies and you can ride him and, as Woody notes, he gallops like the wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Eardrums drenched in the whirring neighs of 1,000 mechanical horses.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024
The natural vistas and the rhythmic clomping of the steed beneath you can indeed be lulling, but then suddenly Bismarck gets spooked by something and jerks and neighs.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
He has Denise play the girl, and he plays the horse, communicating only in whinnies and neighs.
From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014
Then a horse neighs in the distant camp, and soon after another, neither of them having any significance.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid
Horses neighed in terror, dogs stared into space, transfixed by the tremors, and in Central Park, an Egyptian obelisk “trembled from apex to pedestal,” according to a New York Times article dated Aug. 11, 1884.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
“He is how the pilgrims used to travel back then,” said Ms. García-Inés as Óscar neighed outside the old stone inn where the travelers had stopped.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
The horses neighed and slowed, but they couldn’t stop in time, and they collided into the first car.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
The animals neighed at each other and sometimes raised up their front legs, causing fear and pandemonium.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
The last of the boys gave up, but the horse behind them neighed a second time, much closer now.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
They started outside in the parking lot of the Clemente, galloping and neighing like horses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
They are the ghosts of our future, neighing for us to follow them.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2018
The horses can smell the tiger scent and begin neighing and curvetting, trying to get away from it.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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