unhorse

Example Sentences

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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework.

From Time Magazine Archive

The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking back at the boy he had attempted to unhorse, the cowman was leaning over far to the left in his saddle when Tad struck his horse.

From The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Patchin, Frank Gee