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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

In another, Catherine answers he insult of the horse business by gamely grinning as she replies, "I wanted to. But the horse said no, and neigh means nay!"

From Salon ● May 15, 2020

They knew their jobs and did them with nary a peep, bark or neigh.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2019

The horse gave a short snort and neigh, then paced around the equestrian center, one of eight shelters for animals affected by the Sand fire. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2016

Then there was a wild neigh and the horse plunged off in the dark, the crisp, frantic clanking of metal and the stomping of hooves followed me to the door.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

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

From 0930 in the morning to 1930 at night, the relentless patter of the auctioneer rat-a-tat-tats to the assembled throng against a backdrop of clip clops and yays and neighs.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2014

He has Denise play the girl, and he plays the horse, communicating only in whinnies and neighs.

From The Verge ● Oct. 2, 2014

Come to our help, O Mithra, high lord, when the arrow hisses aloud and the horse neighs in his nostrils, and the missiles whizz, and the strings speed forth the sharp, bony arrows.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

After the Jets’ first three-and-out, I neighed and whinnied like a horse.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2021

“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

Gandalf whistled and called aloud the horse’s name, and far away he tossed his head and neighed, and turning sped towards the host like an arrow.

From "The Two Towers" 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

The cool girls are “horse girls” who gallop around the schoolyard neighing and whinnying, behavior that in America, I can report firsthand, rarely qualifies as anything remotely resembling cool.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

They are the ghosts of our future, neighing for us to follow them.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2018

With a loud neighing sound, she arched her back and sent him tumbling gently into a row of shoes by the wall and he screamed in delighted outrage, before climbing up again.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2017

Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan