sway-backed
- a word derived from sway-back.
Example Sentences
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“To every small boy of North Dixon, Uncle Peter and his sway-backed sorrel mare and rickety spring wagon were a sort of landmark, an accustomed sight which was daily watched for,” his obituary reads.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2018
The model in the Jontue ads is pictured leading a white horse; to Outdoorsman Bergerac the first horse that subordinates showed him looked like a sway-backed plow dragger.
From Time Magazine Archive
That accounted for just about all the politics in Fayette, the sway-backed seat of poverty-ridden Jefferson County.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse.
From Time Magazine Archive
I stood up to show her how sway-backed I was.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
