bridle
noun
part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting usually of a headstall, bit, and reins.
has bridled
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present perfectof bridle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Fed Chair Yellen has bridled at such ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2015
So far he has bridled, saying the decision would have a “boomerang effect” and that American-Russian relations were being driven to a “dead end”.
From Economist ● Jul. 17, 2014
He has bridled at the common belief that his Secretary of State runs U.S. foreign policy, and he has been concerned about Kissinger's often pessimistic moods and ample ego.
From Time Magazine Archive
Democratic Senator John Carroll has bridled at the personal favorite of Whizzer White, and made his dissatisfaction known by suggesting no fewer than 21 alternative choices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fox has managed the aristocracy so long, and has bridled them with so much the hand of a master, that what he might have once considered as an achievement, he now regards as child's play.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
