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

Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72.

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

H should be sounded in the middle of words; as in forehead, abhor, behold, exhaust, inhabit, unhorse.

From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph