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

D'Artagnan furiously swings out on a rope to unhorse an adversary, only to swing right past both horse and rider and come down in a pool of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood in his day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson.

From Time Magazine Archive

But a single touch of the magic lance was enough to unhorse them all, and one by one Bradamante sent them to their lord.

From The Red Romance Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)