Sample Sentences for
foal
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  • The horse and her foal are across the pasture.
  • Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.  (source)
    foal = horse to which she'd given birth
  • The horse seemed to like it too; he gave the sort of whinney a horse would give if, after years of being a cab-horse, it found itself back in the old field where it had played as a foal, and saw someone whom it remembered and loved coming across the field to bring it a lump of sugar.  (source)
    foal = young horse
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  • Several limes in the old garden had been cut down and a piebald mare and her foal were wandering in front of the house among the rosebushes.  (source)
    foal = young horse
  • 'Nevertheless,' said Magorian calmly, 'the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime — we do not touch the innocent.†  (source)
  • To Ellen, mares never foaled nor cows calved.†  (source)
  • Charles wrote to his brother regularly—of the farm and the village, of sick cows and a foaling mare, of the added pasture and the lightning-struck barn, of Alice's choking death from her consumption and his father's move to a permanent paid position in the G.A.R. in Washington.†  (source)
  • And so in ten days, after six long years of dissections, castrations, foalings, and shoving my arm up a cow's rear end more times than I care to remember, I, and my faithful shadow, Virginity, will leave Ithaca and join my father's veterinary practice in Norwich.†  (source)
  • He was given to me when he was just a foal.  (source)
  • He used to arrive late to their accounting class with singular excuses—a cow's lack of appetite, the difficult birth of two foals.†  (source)
  • The horse was foaled at Monterey Farm in Paris Kentucky.†  (source)
  • He knowed, I reckon, that maybe I weren't no horse foaling.†  (source)
  • With a final push he was through, trembling and sliding to the floor like a newborn foal.†  (source)
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