MARE in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for MARE, such as:

1. A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.
2. The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.
3. He was angry with him for galloping past and exciting his mare.
4. The mare glanced aslant at him, drew up her lip, and twitched her ear.
5. For the first instant Vronsky was not master either of himself or his mare.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mare
 n.  female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds; sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the races with intense, though reserved, excitement.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
2  The temporary stable, a wooden shed, had been put up close to the race course, and there his mare was to have been taken the previous day.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
3  Even more than his mare, Vronsky longed to see Gladiator, whom he had never seen.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
4  In the horse-box stood a dark bay mare, with a muzzle on, picking at the fresh straw with her hoofs.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
5  Looking round him in the twilight of the horse-box, Vronsky unconsciously took in once more in a comprehensive glance all the points of his favorite mare.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
6  The muscles of both hind- and fore-legs were not very thick; but across her shoulders the mare was exceptionally broad, a peculiarity specially striking now that she was lean from training.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
7  He felt that his heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the mare, longed to move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
8  He would have gone up to his mare, but he was again detained by an acquaintance.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
9  "No," answered Vronsky, and without even glancing round towards the pavilion where his friend was pointing out Madame Karenina, he went up to his mare.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
10  The mare glanced aslant at him, drew up her lip, and twitched her ear.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
11  Prince Kuzovlev sat with a white face on his thoroughbred mare from the Grabovsky stud, while an English groom led her by the bridle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
12  Before the mare had time to move, Vronsky stepped with an agile, vigorous movement into the steel-toothed stirrup, and lightly and firmly seated himself on the creaking leather of the saddle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
13  The excited mare, trying to shake off her rider first on one side and then the other, pulled at the reins, and Vronsky tried in vain with voice and hand to soothe her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
14  He was angry with him for galloping past and exciting his mare.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
15  For the first instant Vronsky was not master either of himself or his mare.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 25
Example Sentence:
1  A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.
2  When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.
3  The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.