COLT in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for COLT, such as:
1. A ragged colt may make a good horse.
2. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
3. And when my family wanted me to marry a second cousin, I bucked like a colt.
4. Mrs. Tarleton had a brood mare and a colt and was as happy as though she had a million dollars.
5. Haley's horse, which was a skittish young colt, winced, and bounced, and pulled hard at his halter.
2. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
3. And when my family wanted me to marry a second cousin, I bucked like a colt.
4. Mrs. Tarleton had a brood mare and a colt and was as happy as though she had a million dollars.
5. Haley's horse, which was a skittish young colt, winced, and bounced, and pulled hard at his halter.
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Meanings and Examples of COLT
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colt
n. a kind of revolver
n. a young male horse under the age of four
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.
2 Ethan recognised Michael Eady's roan colt, and young Denis Eady, in a handsome new fur cap, leaned forward and waved a greeting.
3 He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.
4 And when my family wanted me to marry a second cousin, I bucked like a colt.
5 Mrs. Tarleton had a brood mare and a colt and was as happy as though she had a million dollars.
6 Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
7 Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
8 Cutter thought he knew a great deal about horses, and usually had a colt which he was training for the track.
9 The death of the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner," said the scout; "but it's a good sign to see a man account upon his dumb friends.
10 Come, friend, don't be mournful for the colt; 'twas an innocent thing, and had not seen much hardship.'
11 Haley's horse, which was a skittish young colt, winced, and bounced, and pulled hard at his halter.
12 With one of these in his fingers, Sam approached the colt, stroked and patted, and seemed apparently busy in soothing his agitation.
13 Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way.
14 The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely, for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.
15 He was in a great state of mind at that, and mounting the colt, who stood by him through thick and thin, rushed to the castle to see which was left.
Example Sentence:
1 A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can.
2 A ragged colt may make a good horse.
3 The farmer did not wish to sell his fine colt, but when the horse dealer tickled his palm with a few hundred dollars, he consented.