horseshoe

I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

There’s a friendship bracelet from a volunteer trip to Haiti, a horseshoe found on a Grand Canyon trail and antique lace from a market in Bruges, Belgium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

At Petersburg, the Confederate lines are arranged in a jagged horseshoe, facing south— thirty-seven miles of trenches and fortifications in all.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

One invented the mechanical reaper, another a machine for the mass production of horseshoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Beyoncé's rodeo rumbled into London, bringing with it every country cliché you could think of - cowboy hats, horseshoes, tassels and even a gold mechanical bull.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

There’s a gentle curve to the bridge at the front of the frames and what almost looks like horseshoes on the hinges that connect the temples to the lenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024

“Did you have a good game?” said Mrs. Stenson when we brought the horseshoes back up.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

But will it be as intimidating as the cauldron created by the almost 5,000-seat stand that horseshoed the first tee at Rome in 2023?

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

In both cases, he has accidentally horseshoed himself into spectacularly ill-informed opinions that nonetheless capture something of the contemporary zeitgeist.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

At the Masters, he horseshoed short putts to miss the cut while Tiger Woods ground out a limping resurgence on his surgically repaired leg.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

During the final round of the SAS Championship, Parnevik missed a short bogey putt that horseshoed around the hole and ultimately hit his foot.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 15, 2019

The three-times European Ryder Cup member missed the chance for a “mulligan” — golf terminology for a free shot — when his short bogey putt horseshoed around the hole and hit his foot.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2019

She was driving on Highway 530, headed to a horseshoeing appointment, when the slide hit.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

She sent Benedict Cumberbatch — who stars as Phil, a vicious, hypermasculine rancher — to Montana as well, to learn roping, riding, horseshoeing, whittling, banjo and bull-calf castration.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

That’s out of this world, but Casey passes up the opportunity to salvage the half, his putt horseshoeing out.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021

“There is being in running shape and there is being in horseshoeing shape,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015

Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson