Thousand Guineas

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the Thousand Guineas or usually written 1000 Guineas (functioning as singular) an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814Also known as: the One Thousand Guineas

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Words nearby Thousand Guineas

thoughtway, thousand, Thousand and One Nights, thousand days, thousandfold, Thousand Guineas, Thousand Island, Thousand Island dressing, Thousand Islands, thousand-jacket, Thousand Oaks

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Example sentences from the Web for Thousand Guineas

Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
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Neither could her three-week, multi-thousand dollar stay, which was supposed to be a recovery period.
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One person who dialed in has “a pretty big Twitter following,” Goff said, “several thousand.”
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Two years into an Arctic expedition, they were forced to abandon ship a thousand miles north of Siberia.
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2014|William O’Connor|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The garrison of the town and fortress was nearly three thousand strong.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

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