horse sense
Example Sentences
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He had that horse sense about him and how horses are traveling and what they should have left in the tank.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019
The ex-Rangers, reclassified as highway patrolmen for their new mission, prefer to rely on horse sense and cowboy folk wisdom.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019
Independent women with choices stand as a factual refutation to the watery stew of evolutionary psychology, macho posturing, and LAN party horse sense that these groups subsist on.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2015
She didn’t know what Dodger and his horse sense knew.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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