How to Use foal in a Sentence

foal

noun
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  • Through June 17, the public can vote on the foal’s name.
    — Jasmine Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 June 2019
  • The aim for Bullard's team to is to get about 140 mares a year in foal by Dubawi.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 31 May 2018
  • Lasix won’t be used on the foal crop of 2018 and beyond.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019
  • The first foal to come ashore — a black-and-white male this year — is not sold with the others.
    — The Virginian-Pilot, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • If the foal doesn't get up right away, the mother nudges them to get on their feet.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 7 June 2017
  • The foal, who wouldn’t be named for a year or more, began struggling to stand.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • Misty herself was a real pony on the ranch, as was her foal, Stormy.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • The owner's son says six adult horses and four foals died.
    — Matt Gard, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2018
  • Antony Tira, a Maasai guide who first spotted the foal, named him Tira.
    — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2019
  • From foals, mares and stallions, to horses racing on the track.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2019
  • On a cool spring night in 1850, the young black stable hand attends the birth of the foal that will make history.
    — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • This is also the 10th foal out of this dam, with seven of the nine foals winners on the track, always great to see.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Mares and foals running along hills covered in green grass.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 14 June 2019
  • The foal will stay close to her mother for six months before joining the rest of the herd in the fall, park officials said.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
  • Del Mar be used to six days a week but a dwindling national foal crop forced them to go to five.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
  • Sleepy mares, bellies swollen with foals ready to drop, stand napping on their feet in the early spring sun.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023
  • According to the trust, the foal is expected to live a normal life.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Adia, a 16-year-old Grevy’s zebra, gave birth to her fifth offspring, a female foal, on Aug. 21.
    — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • These foals are up on their feet within two hours of being born and drinking from their moms.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 7 June 2017
  • Guests can see Poppy and the new foal in the zoo’s African Savanna exhibit.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
  • More than 200 mares — some pregnant, others nursing new foals — bring life to this horsy Brigadoon.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • And just last week, Ben’s spouse, Rivka Liss-Levinson, galloped off with some foal-name ink for her 14th.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • In late May, a zebra named Minnie gave birth to a female foal named Lydia.
    — Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 24 July 2019
  • On Thursday, the brown foal with a long patch of white hair on its face splashed in a tub of water and cozied up to visitors.
    — CBS News, 6 May 2018
  • The lack of big fields and shrinking foal numbers would tell you this is not a sustainable model.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • Then the foal that results from the breeding is nominated in their first year for $400, which is good for the rest of their career.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • The horse was trying to kill a newborn foal, and Massena had rescued the colt by placing it under a tool box in a truck.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • Her young foal is tied to her rear leg to trick her into thinking that its mouth, not your hands, is tugging at her teats.
    — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Dallas also has a zebra foal named Sukari, and Fort Worth has a young lesser kudu.
    — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Rice pulled and pushed on the foal’s forelegs like a crane operator working her gears until the legs were aimed for the exit.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022

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