neigh
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Even on the backside, it seemed like any other race day: Workers tended to horses who let out the occasional neigh.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
“A Naqqal edits his own scripts, directs the performance himself, and creates various characters. He does not hesitate to imitate the lion’s roar, the horse’s neigh, and the roar of the dragon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
More neigh sauce: We can’t tell you the secret ingredient .
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2016
But as soon as I boarded the bus, Jane and Kim started to neigh.
From Salon ● May 22, 2012
Samson, robbed of his prey, squealed in fury and followed the Huntsman into the trees with a neigh that sounded almost hungry.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Yes, he neighs and whinnies and you can ride him and, as Woody notes, he gallops like the wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Eardrums drenched in the whirring neighs of 1,000 mechanical horses.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024
The natural vistas and the rhythmic clomping of the steed beneath you can indeed be lulling, but then suddenly Bismarck gets spooked by something and jerks and neighs.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
He has Denise play the girl, and he plays the horse, communicating only in whinnies and neighs.
From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014
Harnessed up for citizens, Nor a ramping party-hack Full of showy kicks and neighs.
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine
Horses neighed in terror, dogs stared into space, transfixed by the tremors, and in Central Park, an Egyptian obelisk “trembled from apex to pedestal,” according to a New York Times article dated Aug. 11, 1884.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
“He is how the pilgrims used to travel back then,” said Ms. García-Inés as Óscar neighed outside the old stone inn where the travelers had stopped.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
The animals neighed at each other and sometimes raised up their front legs, causing fear and pandemonium.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
The horses neighed and slowed, but they couldn’t stop in time, and they collided into the first car.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
But Shadowfax paused in his stride, slowing to a walk, and then he lifted up his head and neighed.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
There’s one sound people think is a neighing horse, but it was a horn.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019
They are the ghosts of our future, neighing for us to follow them.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2018
“Traitor Knight,” cried the neighing voice, as the wood thundered under the metal.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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