How do you use Filly in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like foal or female, plus the exact meaning.
Filly in a sentence
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Filly meaning
- A young female horse.
- A young, attractive woman.
Using Filly
- The main meaning on this page is: A young female horse. | A young, attractive woman.
- Useful related words include: foal, female.
- In the example corpus, filly often appears in combinations such as: the filly, filly who, three-year-old filly.
Context around Filly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Filly
- In this selection, "filly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, juvenile, metro, big, two, served and graces stand out and add context to how "filly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 million filly and mare and after his filly served cold. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "filly" sits close to words such as adil, agra and amicably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with filly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Coolmore Stud hand Hugo parades the Winx filly. (8 words)
The maidens bring us home, and like progressive metro filly who can pounce third-up in weaker company. (18 words)
Keep very safe progressive and sparingly raced filly who finished best to win at Ipswich 16 days ago. (18 words)
But the Del Mar morning-line oddsmaker sees his best chances coming with 7-2 favorite Domestic Product in the $1 million Dirt Mile and 5-2 favorite Ways and Means in the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint, both on Saturday. (42 words)
The Mr. Big filly, who had won four of five races going in and went postward as the 2-1 favorite, went gate to wire from the outside post (No. 8) and beat Flying Connection by six lengths. (38 words)
The punt money wasn’t slow in arriving, and even more of it when the filly drew starting gate No 2 for the Met and leading jockey Keagan de Melo was booked to partner her. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Smartly away the filly has returned to her original trainer and had jockey Wesley Joyce aboard who sustained very serious injuries on the filly two years ago at the Galway Festival.
Danny O’Brien, who won the Oaks in 2019 with Miami Bound, has as good a chance as any after his filly Served Cold won at Geelong last week.
Indeed, several winners down the years have failed to frank a reputation as the top colt or filly of a national generation.
On the same day, a filly was badly injured on the Ashley Walk to Deadman's Hill stretch of the B3078 and had to be destroyed by one of the New Forest agisters.
Stablemate Dancing Dream finished third in the same race and Williams doesn’t believe it will be long before the juvenile filly graces the winner’s stall.
The 39th annual Aberdeen Clydesdale Show made a welcome return to its new home at Uppermill Farm, Kintore on Saturday, where the star of the show was filly foal, Collessie Aurora.
The maidens bring us home, and like progressive metro filly who can pounce third-up in weaker company.
The Mr. Big filly, who had won four of five races going in and went postward as the 2-1 favorite, went gate to wire from the outside post (No. 8) and beat Flying Connection by six lengths.
The other seven-figure yearling engaged on Monday is Invincible Madison, a $1.2m I Am Invincible-Super Too filly who was bought by American interests at Magic Millions.
The punt money wasn’t slow in arriving, and even more of it when the filly drew starting gate No 2 for the Met and leading jockey Keagan de Melo was booked to partner her.
Among his other shows, he hosted BBC series Hot Property and Munya And Filly Get Chilly with comedian Munya Chawawa, a spin-off show of Freeze The Fear With Wim Hof.
An emerging filly lining up for her fourth start is out to carve herself a piece of history at Monday’s Gunnedah meeting.
But the Del Mar morning-line oddsmaker sees his best chances coming with 7-2 favorite Domestic Product in the $1 million Dirt Mile and 5-2 favorite Ways and Means in the $1 million Filly and Mare Sprint, both on Saturday.
Channon, who trains from an historic base at West Ilsley in Berkshire, said: “She is a very nice filly.
Coolmore Stud hand Hugo parades the Winx filly.
Improving filly ran home hard from the back when resuming at Grafton and is one of several each-way chances.
In addition, a look at times over the course and distance indicates this filly could prove too speedy for her rivals.
Keep very safe progressive and sparingly raced filly who finished best to win at Ipswich 16 days ago.
Lee said: “She’s a filly with loads of class and was in a different league to the rest today.
Neither filly, who cemented Beckett's record of being the course's leading trainer with 10 winners, will run again this term.
Common combinations with filly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the filly 11×
- filly who 10×
- three-year-old filly 6×
- filly was 4×
- filly to 4×
- farm filly 4×
- filly has 3×
- filly and 3×
- filly on 3×
- filly is 3×