hobbyhorse

Example Sentences

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In 2017, the National Institutes of Health asked Hotez to meet with Kennedy to move him off the hobbyhorse of a vaccine-autism link.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

He has gone on to establish regular, silly characters - a romantic poet, a highwayman with a hobbyhorse, and a running story that sends up the allure of the archetypal aloof hero.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

The curtain falls on their son rocking on a hobbyhorse.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022

He used the review space to give a hobbyhorse a ride.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2016

His eyes grew wide, and then wider still at the sight of Beowulf sitting astride his wolf as naturally as a child riding a hobbyhorse.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood