(n.) The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Car enthusiasts ship their classic Mustangs, Fords and Chevys across oceans to cruise this iconic road and experience a true slice of Americana.
(2) Back in the 19th century, cowboys used the point as a natural corral, where they could herd mustangs out to the tip and build a fence across the bottleneck of the point.
(3) They reached a road and a waiting car, an old yellow Mustang.
(4) Once someone had put my feet in the chunky stirrups, I was handed the reins of a mustang crossbreed known as Amigo.
(5) 10 July 2011 A North American P-51 Mustang and a Douglas A-1 Skyraider are involved in a midair collision at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
(6) 16 Cal Poly felt incredibly comfortable, with the Shockers' Cleanthony Early, who finished the game with 23 points, at times threatening to outscore the entire Mustangs squad.
(7) The Douglas lands safely and the Mustang pilot parachutes to safety as his plane plummets to the ground.
(8) Unfortunately, only one of our group had remained sober to drive us to our hotel, several hours away, and it was the one whose other car is a Mustang.
(9) Gina Mule, a witness at the Lee Highway location, told CNN she saw a white male in a silver convertible Ford Mustang with a gun.
(10) Vselensky’s friends believe the arrest, on drug charges, was made to compel Mustang Wanted, the celebrity Ukrainian roofer who claimed responsibility for the action on his Facebook page, to turn himself over to the Russian police.
(11) But on Friday a Ukrainian roofer known as Mustang Wanted, whose videos of himself hanging from buildings at vertigo-inducing heights have earned him online notoriety, posted a photograph of himself standing on top of the repainted star and said he had coloured it and topped it with a Ukrainian flag "in an outburst of genuine patriotic feelings".
(12) With a budget of Hollywood proportions – £2.5m just for this set piece – the Grand Tour’s opening scene at midnight on Thursday featured Clarkson and co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond in red, white and blue Ford Mustangs leading a convoy of 150 vehicles to a huge tent in the Californian desert.
(13) The SMU Mustangs, coached by Larry Brown ( yes that Larry Brown ) were expected to make a tournament appearance, but will have to settle for a trip to the NIT .
(14) Top tip: The Steens are famous among wild horse enthusiasts, who travel to the region to catch a glimpse of a rare Kiger mustang, hardy horses directly descended from Spanish stock brought to North America in the 17th century.
(15) It is popular with foreign tourists visiting the Mount Annapurna and Mustang region for trekking, and with Hindu pilgrims visiting the Muktinath temple .
(16) It has been found that malondialdehyde penetrates during smoking through filters and exhales with smoke from cigarettes such as: "Pall Mall", "Winston", "Camel", "Lucky Strike", "Kansas", "Mustang", "Ronson", "Chesterfield", "Rally", "Oscar" and "Marlboro".
Pegasus
Definition:
(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
(n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey of 788 patients on a specialty support surface, Pegasus Airwave System, in 119 hospitals or hospices in the United Kingdom during February and March 1991 provided the largest database on the current pattern of use of any pressure-relieving mattress.
(2) Heavy rain last Thursday marred the Pegasus Day parade that marks the opening of the annual Kentucky Derby festival.
(3) This study describes the current use and reported effectiveness of the Pegasus Airwave System in pressure sore prevention.
(4) On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008) .
(5) Three-dimensional structures were generated using the torsion angle space program PEGASUS.
(6) Three giant planets were snapped around a star known as HR 8799 in the constellation of Pegasus, 130 light years from Earth.