hooves
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Best among them is the picture of a woman who tugs on a goat’s hooves, the animal largely out of frame, struggling against its weight as she grips a blade between her teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
They traced the preserved soft anatomy, examined the sediments inside and outside the mummy, and matched the dinosaur's hooves back into a footprint.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
"They will provide a habitat for a much more diverse species range by their hooves marking the ground, driving in acorns, rolling on the ground and they'll graze anything and everything," he said.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
There were boys with tiny horns jutting from their foreheads and hooves instead of feet.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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