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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "thoroughbred" in a sentence

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    thoroughbred


    1. like cabin of his thoroughbred steed


    2. Before he climbed back into the cockpit of his thoroughbred machine the black


    3. The thoroughbred gladiators I’d imagined


    4. She helped Beth select a chestnut thoroughbred stallion that snorted eagerly when led from its stall, and which she described as a great mount for an experienced rider but slightly headstrong


    5. He needed something more macho - suitable to his stature - like the chestnut thoroughbred stallion that stomped and snorted in a nearby stall


    6. On the return ride, the spirited thoroughbred knew exactly where they were going: they were retracing their steps and at the end of the trail waited its cozy stall with a feed bin full of fresh grain


    7. They got to try out different machines, and the SE was a real thoroughbred compared to the hacks we usually let him and some others fly


    8. Sleek Andalusian thoroughbred horses, raised as the mounts for


    9. They rode Quarter Horses, the classic cowboy horse of the American mid west, shorter than an English Thoroughbred but tougher and better suited to hard and uneven ground


    10. Various other awards have been given and his name adorns: stadiums, parks, schools, a bridge, statues and even a thoroughbred horse

    11. the Thoroughbred Club, with its dark paneling and richly covered


    12. She sat behind the wheel of every top-‐of-‐the-‐range thoroughbred in every


    13. Wickland concluded that her use of equine decor along with her demeanor suggested that she too was a thoroughbred, which made her all the more appealing


    14. the little moon shuttle shot off like a thoroughbred with a throaty roar


    15. And, it is a fact, that the pasha’s thoroughbred horses did not like it when they chewed on the small stones in the fodder and they did in fact suffer a lot of pain


    16. stood, he vaulted from the Thoroughbred and looked


    17. The agile Thoroughbred managed to regain


    18. She was bareback on a sleek black thoroughbred


    19. thoroughbred rolled over her, and then scrambled to his feet


    20. Emily chose a quiet thoroughbred mare and slipped a bridle on her

    21. All laughed to see Don Fernando going from one to another collecting the votes, and whispering to them to give him their private opinion whether the treasure over which there had been so much fighting was a pack-saddle or a caparison; but after he had taken the votes of those who knew Don Quixote, he said aloud, "The fact is, my good fellow, that I am tired collecting such a number of opinions, for I find that there is not one of whom I ask what I desire to know, who does not tell me that it is absurd to say that this is the pack-saddle of an ass, and not the caparison of a horse, nay, of a thoroughbred horse; so you must submit, for, in spite of you and your ass, this is a caparison and no pack-saddle, and you have stated and proved your case very badly


    22. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in thoroughbred racing


    23. Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the races with intense, though reserved, excitement


    24. Prince Kuzovlev sat with a white face on his thoroughbred mare from the Grabovsky stud, while an English groom led her by the bridle


    25. But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses laboring to save him


    26. I said thoroughbred


    27. He explain’d the History of the Horse in England, how the heavy Horses of our Ancestors had been cross-bred with the Arabians to produce the Noble Thoroughbred, the finest Horse the World hath e’er known


    28. He spoke of the slender Beauty of the Thoroughbred, the Wildness of the Pure Arabian, the Pow’r of the heavy Breeds, the Charm of the Connemara, Shetland, and the Welsh Ponies, the soulful Eyes of Mares, and the flaring Nostrils of Stallions—almost as if he were a Lover besotted with his Beloved’s Charms


    29. Rostov could already see their faces and heard the command: ‘Charge!’ shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to full speed


    30. He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth

    31. On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon


    32. ") He wanted to see all he could of thoroughbred horses and thoroughbred cattle


    33. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred


    34. I have cultivated my inner organs as if they were thoroughbred dogs, cats, and other animals


    35. Leaving, at midnight, I found myself raising a hand to slap her on the flat of her flank like a thoroughbred


    36. Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the races with intense, though reserved, excitement…


    37. The horse under Zhilín was a thoroughbred (he had paid a hundred roubles for it when it was a colt, and had himself trained it), and it carried him up the slope as though on wings


    38. The good-natured fellow told Nekhludoff the whole story of his life, and was going to question him in turn, when their attention was aroused by a student and a veiled lady, who drove up in a trap, with rubber tyres, drawn by a large thoroughbred horse


    39. The horse really was an exceptionally fine one, a broad and long gelding, with glossy coat, thick silky tail, and the soft fine mane and crest of a thoroughbred


    40. As he reached the house he saw at the door four big, well-fed, well-groomed, thoroughbred horses harnessed to a carriage, the black lacquer of which glistened in the sun

    41. Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: “Charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to full speed


    42. A horse less royally bred than Ixion, an animal with more temper and less courage than this thoroughbred, after the buffeting he had received during the race, would have sulked, or responded at best with feeble effort


    43. Not so with the Blaisdell thoroughbred, under the skillful guidance of a premier jockey


    44. As they passed a blacksmith’s shop, the smith was shoeing a Kentucky thoroughbred, who looked at them with an airy unconcern


    45. James Thornton’s thoroughbred hunters, all these were as meat and drink to her


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    Synonyms for "thoroughbred"

    pureblood purebred thoroughbred pedigree pedigreed pureblooded high-spirited elegant graceful high-strung proud aristocratic well-bred registered

    "thoroughbred" definitions

    a well-bred person


    a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares


    a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses


    having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal