How to Use horse around in a Sentence

horse around

verb
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  • As Mal looked on, the two men, drunk to the gills, were horsing around.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The youngsters sulk, stomp and scamper, pull pranks and horse around.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Bertuzzi accepted it, hugged his parents, and went back out to horse around.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • The day before the show, horsing around in the basement, Miles climbed on top of the puppet theatre, fell off, and nearly broke his nose.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But Priyanka, the oldest, drove her crazy, skipping school to horse around with her younger siblings.
    — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Speaking of adorable, how great was that glimpse of McGee laughing at Parker and Torres horsing around in the final scene?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Ajiah Arceneaux, 16, races her horse around a barrel at a rodeo in Liberty, Texas.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The people outfitted in ape costumes could be seen trotting their horses around on the sand while members of the public looked on in shock.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps a gallop at Griffith Park or lunging — driving a horse around a circle on a rope — in a patch of land called the Pollywog.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The pages featured the upper crust at play, horsing around and lounging about, untroubled yet serious.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Once a pony time, there lived in Philly-delphia a coltish, stag-geringly beautiful lass named Whinny, who wore a ponytail and horsed around with her family and friends.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Police and an ambulance responded to an Aug. 19 call from Hiram House Camp, where a rider had been bucked off her horse around noon but remained conscious and alert, although dizzy.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Read full article For thirty minutes, Smith and her fellow pediatric cardiac patients rode horses around Windrush’s barn, releasing their anxieties and expressing their vulnerabilities to the intelligent animals.
    — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023

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