(n.) An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(2) Police, some on horseback, began to gain control of a 200-metre stretch of the high road by around midnight, allowing fire-engines to tackle the raging fires.
(3) Other attempts to boost his image as a tough man of action have included photos of him hunting, arm wrestling, riding horseback and fitting a collar to a tranquilised polar bear.
(4) Police charged the 1,000-strong group on horseback.
(5) Photograph: Dan Chung These days travellers along the route come by bus or plane rather than camel or horseback; laden with cameras rather than goods.
(6) Soldiers on horseback charged into the crowd, and water cannon were used in an attempt to push back the protesters.
(7) The Sudanese government responded by unleashing the janjaweed (Arabic for devil on horseback) militia on the rebels.
(8) In March, up to 400 elephants were killed in a few hours in a park in Cameroon by a Sudanese gang on horseback bearing machine guns .
(9) The point is profit.” It easy to laugh at some of the creations, and some will surely travel to the city just to see the hilariously clumsy statues of painters wielding paintbrushes, large-breasted maidens, and the dozens of rugged warriors on horseback.
(10) To sceptics, he was an opportunist prone to gimmicks – such as the attractive policewomen who paraded around Dalian on horseback when he ran the city.
(11) This report summarizes a study by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to characterize all horseback-riding-associated deaths during 1979-1989 and to determine what proportion of riders had used alcohol before death.
(12) Officers were making extra patrols on foot, in vehicles, on bicycles and on horseback.
(13) The article surveys some of the scientific fundamentals of hippo- and riding therapy, and its methods using the characteristic horseback three dimensional rhythmic movement impulses for its therapeutic values, particularly in cerebral palsy.
(14) At Thursday's MPA meeting, Joanne McCartney, a MPA member, pressed Stephenson to clarify the situation over the horseback charge by officers.
(15) In our family, one of the more “liberal” in our church, we were usually allowed to wear pants at home (when we weren’t around other ATI families and for activities like horseback riding), but jeans were strictly forbidden.
(16) After one lieutenant was doused in water from a bottle hurled from the crowd, five officers on horseback arrived from behind the station and positioned themselves around five yards from the police front line.
(17) Charles I had good reason to be grateful to his favourite portraitist who, in paintings such as a famous barn door-sized image of the king in armour on horseback, made his diminutive form into a towering emblem of wisdom and majesty.
(18) About 3,000 officers will be on duty, with another 120 on horseback.
(19) An easygoing ride on horseback is the best way to take in the scenery and, within a couple of hours, I'm beginning to get used to Tango and his ways.
(20) Only about 200 Pegida supporters were present in the Dutch city, outnumbered by police and leftwing demonstrators who shouted: “Refugees are welcome, fascists are not.” Dutch riot police detained several people as officers on horseback intervened to separate the two groups.
Horseman
Definition:
(n.) A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.
(n.) A mounted soldier; a cavalryman.
(n.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.
(n.) A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus).
Example Sentences:
(1) I am Scottish football's horseman of the apocalypse.
(2) In a 2014 article about the first season, Slate’s J Bryan Lowder wrote : “Straight critics and viewers seeking liberal cred will find an easy tool here; Looking is, after all, gay without any of the hard parts (dick included), gay that’s polite and comfortable and maybe a little titillating but definitely not all up in your face about it.” The week’s best new TV: Looking, BoJack Horseman and Vikings Read more Despite the brickbats, Looking was renewed for a second season, and matured into a layered portrait of contemporary gay friendships and relationships.
(3) Soak is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse – the one who left before they got famous.
(4) This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence ( Peter O’Toole ) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali (Sharif), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.
(5) Thus in a case of valgus flat foot Judet's so-called "horseman" operation is indicated whilst in a flat foot without valgus, transposition of the tibialis anterior is preferable.
(6) He was handsome with his blonde curly hair, an accomplished horseman, holder of a pilots’ licence, and so much more.
(7) Photograph: Alamy Gobi desert, Mongolia, Benedict Allen Benedict Allen I once walked 3,000 miles through Mongolia, from the icy upland margins of Siberia, where I acquired a string of horses and a slightly drunken horseman, Kermit, who didn't speak a word of English.
(8) Horseman warned of Brexit being “a possible flashpoint if the UK voted to leave the EU while the majority of Scots voted to stay in.
(9) In the veterinary surgery a horse on a slab was undergoing an examination of the bronchial tract; in the air-conditioned dressage centre no lesser a horseman than the president of the Russian Equestrian Federation, Anatoly Merkulov himself, was putting horses going through their routines (as inspected by Princess Anne last year); and in the club's restaurant, one-and-a-half hours late, Putin breezed past bottles of 1888 Armagnac, and invited his guests to try the bottled mushrooms, with whose preparation he was intimately familiar.
(10) And it is the heart of BoJack Horseman , Arnett’s new Netflix animated comedy, in which he plays an alcoholic, self-hating equine ex-TV star.
(11) Suddenly, he knew of what this particular horseman would be a harbinger.
(12) Pukac and Horseman (Endocrinology 114: 1718, 1984) reported that injections of the hormone caused changes in the expression of several specific proteins in that organ.
(13) Treatment is only surgical in severe forms and is based upon the "Horseman" operation, orthopaedic treatment by special soles being rarely indicated.
(14) Bojack Horseman has an agreeably odd premise (washed-up horse actor tries to rebuild his career) and a stonking cast (Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Aaron Paul), and although the trailer does feel a little light on good gags, we're still intrigued enough to give it a go when it comes out in August.
(15) 4.40pm BST Bojack Horseman: what Netflix did next They've done the 'daft-accented political thriller' (House Of Cards), and the 'women's prison comedy drama' (Orange Is The New Black), so what's next for Netflix?
(16) Chris Horseman editorial director of Informa Agribusiness & Commodities said that since the UK was a crucial export market for Ireland and the Netherlands, the EU would have an incentive to negotiate a free-trade deal with the UK.
(17) Since 1962, the authors have used a technique of sub-talar arthrodesis combined with talar-calcaneal reposition ("horseman" operation) in cases of valgus flat foot, accompanied by symptoms, in moderate forms with exaggerated talar-calcaneal divergence and verticalisation of the talus.