shoeing
- present participle of shoe.
Example Sentences
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After leaving school at 16 with no qualifications, Paul started working for his father but saw little future in shoeing horses and earning "the equivalent of 75p per horse and the chance to be kicked".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
He began shoeing horses for television and film westerns, and gradually took nonspeaking roles on horseback.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
“I think they got greedy and sloppy. It defies logic to improve every horse you get. You can change shoeing equipment, surface, vitamins, but you can’t improve every horse.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020
Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Smith was put in charge of training and shoeing six racehorses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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