hooves

Example Sentences

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The most unexpected discovery came from the larger mummy's hind feet: this dinosaur had hooves.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 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

This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

However, Rodriguez was scratched Thursday when he had sensitivity in one of his hooves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025

He stretched one of his front hooves onto the closest rock, testing it for any wobbliness.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el