Example Sentences

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The coffin draped in an old Virginia flag was brought into the cemetery on a mule-drawn wagon followed by a riderless horse.

From Washington Times • Jan. 23, 2023

Others had watched a procession of black-and-white police cars and officers on horseback head toward the cemetery along with a riderless horse with empty boots facing backward in the stirrups, signifying a fallen officer.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Some of these scenarios' accompanying sights have recurred frequently to become central to our apocalyptic visual lexicon: planes dropping from the sky, highways choked by lifeless cars or riderless horses.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

The agency last week granted its first-ever temporary exemption for a fleet of riderless delivery vehicles from SoftBank Group Corp backed Nuro Inc.

From Reuters • Feb. 11, 2020

She looked up at the three riderless trikes cowering around them.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older