hobbyhorse

Example Sentences

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“It is refreshingly free both of collegiate sentiment and — in John Updike’s memorable phrase — the dim rumble of hobbyhorses being ridden back and forth across the floor,” Washington Post book reviewer L.J.

From Washington Post

In another sign that Republican radicals are in the ascendance, McCarthy said he wants to impose limits on future U.S. aid to Ukraine, a hobbyhorse of Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The curtain falls on their son rocking on a hobbyhorse.

From New York Times

If that list of job requirements seems like an odd fusion of unrelated conservative hobbyhorses, it is.

From Salon