How to Use horseman in a Sentence

horseman

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  • Thank the horsemen for putting up with all the changes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The four horsemen have been out of the barn for months now.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Aug. 2016
  • In the Bible's Book of Revelation, the horsemen represent the evils that come at the end of the world.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 7 May 2018
  • Well, a fourth horseman is about to enter the fray: earnings.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The era felt something akin to end times, minus the horsemen and locusts.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • For more on this horseman, check out this news release by Mark Ratzky.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The click-clack of Tonka’s hooves on the asphalt alerted bystanders to the masked horseman in their midst.
    — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The horsemen are a key part of Spanish bullfighting, to tire the bull ahead of its final death at the hands of the matador.
    — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Bold horseman gallop up a green hill into a swarm of spears.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 25 Oct. 2021
  • That is why the Eurasian steppe is fringed to the south with barriers designed to forestall horsemen.
    — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Most say the film is on the funnier side, but there are definitely moments of creep thanks to the horseman.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2022
  • The book of Revelation says that the first horseman of the apocalypse rode a white horse and went forth to conquer.
    — Leif Wenar, WSJ, 2 May 2022
  • The four horsemen hit Solider Field last night in support of the 2016 album Hardwired . . .
    — Luca Cimarusti, Chicago Reader, 19 June 2017
  • Not every black leader has embraced the move to scrub the three horsemen from Stone Mountain.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Hill, who starred as the ruler of a horsemen’s kingdom, planned to attend the Comic Con event but pulled out before his death.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
  • Mendelssohn is indeed a very nice horse and Aidan O’Brien is indeed a brilliant horseman.
    — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • The first horseman, and perhaps the most common, is criticism.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Both are accomplished horsemen and work cattle on the weekends at a friend’s ranch.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • The former posits that the dish was invented by Central Asian horsemen.
    — Popular Science, 17 Mar. 2020
  • As an avid horseman, Blakely wears a cowboy hat, boots and shiny belt buckle.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 6 July 2021
  • But her Dothraki troops, horsemen from the east with hooked swords and heavy eye shadow, proved themselves more than a match for western forces.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Did social media cause an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student?
    — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Her English father had grown up in a grand house in Somerset and was a brilliant horseman.
    — Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 22 Nov. 2018
  • On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, horsemen seeking a big payday will eye one of two turf stakes on the 11-race card.
    — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 June 2017
  • Yakteen is considered a very good horseman who has never been on the national stage as the front man.
    — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • Like peeling an onion Michael Cintas is a career horseman who worked with Lipari for years.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
  • The horseman whispered five words that said everything.
    — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • If this was not apocalyptic enough, a fifth horseman is now galloping around the globe.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • So the Californios, famed as some of the finest horsemen in the world, shouted threats and performed equestrian feats from a safe distance, milling around the slow-moving U.S. force.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This means rejecting bullying on race, class, and gender, the three horsemen of the woke apocalypse.
    — Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Jan. 2024

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