rocking horse
Example Sentences
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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
The idea for “Split-Rocker” came to Koons when he noticed his son’s rocking horse in one corner of a room, and a rocking dinosaur in another.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2025
She stacks up miniature versions of banal furnishings — a chair, a sofa, a rocking horse — glued one on top of the other.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
"His first Christmas present was a rocking horse, for his second I got him a pony, and he's never looked back."
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023
A rocking horse, covered in matted hide, sat in the corner under a curl of peeling yellow wallpaper.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
