Example Sentences

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Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

They started outside in the parking lot of the Clemente, galloping and neighing like horses.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

They are the ghosts of our future, neighing for us to follow them.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2018

We slept with the windows open and listened to the horses neighing outside.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2018

Merry and Pippin heard, clear in the cold air, the neighing of war-horses, and the sudden singing of many men.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien