riding crop

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noun

a short whip with a thong at one end and a handle for opening gates at the other

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Words nearby riding crop

ridicule, ridiculous, riding, riding boot, riding breeches, riding crop, riding habit, riding lamp, riding master, riding sail, riding school

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How to use riding crop in a sentence

She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.
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Maybe cyclists have always been riding around, but I just never paid them any attention.
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He slides between them easily, as if riding the fader between his turntables.
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Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.
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Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.
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First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
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But before he could even sow that year's crop, he would have to see a certain banker who lived in Nebraska.
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The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.
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The sound of the swift beating of horse-hoofs was heard from the south, and soon three men came riding up.
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When seen riding the latter, he was asked the reason (it turned out that his better half had taken the good one).
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