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

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

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 current scandal seems as unlikely to unhorse Chairman Daniel Haughton, who has headed Lockheed since 1967, as any of the company's former crises.

From Time Magazine Archive

For him who is trained this comes of itself; but at first even renowned fencers are frequently awkward, and any common fellow, if in practice, will unhorse a new man more skilled than himself.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk