bucker

Example Sentences

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“When you’re riding a bull, you never know if you’re really getting a bucker or one that’s a little bit more easygoing,” Jinkins said in an interview.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

And there is the first chainsaw and her bucker, and the second chainsaw and her bucker.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2021

“I kicked that bucker crazy, now I’m laid-back lazy,” the Montanan writes in his poem “Riding Double-Wild.”

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2015

The calf looked promising at first, but proved to be a halfhearted bucker.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2014

“You ain’t no skinner. They’s no call for a bucker to come into the barn at all. You ain’t no skinner. You ain’t got nothing to do with the horses.”

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck