SADDLE in a Sentence

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For SADDLE, below is one of 137 sentences:
He sat slouched in the saddle, a thick, rough-looking man with an unkempt black beard straggling over his unbuttoned blue jacket.

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 Meanings and Examples of SADDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
saddle
 v.  load or burden; put harness onto animal's back to ride
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  Brent turned in the saddle and called to the negro groom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The wide curving driveway was full of saddle horses and carriages and guests alighting and calling greetings to friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "Don't go," he called, rising in his saddle and holding up his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  She noted how shrunken were the thighs that once bulged with saddle muscles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  He sat slouched in the saddle, a thick, rough-looking man with an unkempt black beard straggling over his unbuttoned blue jacket.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  One foot in the shortened stirrup and the other leg crooked about the pommel in an approximation of a side saddle, she set out across the fields toward Mimosa, steeling herself to find it burned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Scarlett caught a flashing glimpse of thin legs, a flurry of skirts and underclothing and Melanie was in the saddle, her feet dangling far above the stirrups.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  He had found him unconscious by the roadside and had brought him, across his saddle, to Tara, the nearest house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Will Benteen was another soldier, like the nameless boy, who arrived unconscious across the saddle of a comrade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  A few saddle horses and mule teams were hitched outside the wooden awning of Bullard's store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  Driving home with Archie in the chill twilight, Scarlett saw a clutter of saddle horses, buggies and wagons outside the Girl of the Period Saloon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
13  From the time the child could walk he took her about with him constantly, in the carriage or in front of his saddle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
14  Because Bonnie liked to ride on the front of his saddle, he stayed out of doors more and the sunburn began to creep across his dark face, making him swarthier than ever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  People who had never liked him came to smile as he went by with the small figure perched before him on his saddle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank.
2  Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
3  A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.
4  We did six or eight hours in the saddle every day.
5  Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
6  Better lose the saddle than the horse.
7  Please give me a lift onto the saddle.
8  The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
9  Next, smooth off any sharp edges with sandpaper, replace the saddle sections in the correct order and restring.
10  It had a saddle with springs sticking out, which wore away the seat of my pants.
11  When riding a horse you sit on the saddle.
12  Rainy days happen, and your mother is wrong to saddle you with the risk.
13  When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.
14  After we reached the railroad terminus, we continued our journey into the wilderness on saddle horses.
15  The second phase of the trial restarts a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history, and calculate the amount of crude oil that spewed from the crippled well.