Below you will find example sentences with "two horses". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Two Horses in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: horses
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "two horses" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after the two horses were separated, and the two horses won that, per, acre and ploughed stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters, two years and wild horses, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with two horses
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Two horses looked hungry. (4 words)
Police gathered near the site where two horses found themselves stuck in a muddy ditch. (15 words)
The archival pigment print captures every shade of white on the elongated heads of the two horses. (17 words)
In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same. (50 words)
For ploughs with two or more furrows more than two horses are needed and, usually, one or more horses have to walk on the loose ploughed sod and that makes hard going for them, and the horse treads the newly ploughed land down. (43 words)
One of them was Always in Trouble and to this day I’m always in trouble and the other horse was called Shawiya, all trained by Michael O’Brien a trainer from just outside of Naas and the two horses won that day. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
She further suggested limiting the development to two horses per acre, versus the four horses per acre the village permits within other areas designated for horses.
For ploughs with two or more furrows more than two horses are needed and, usually, one or more horses have to walk on the loose ploughed sod and that makes hard going for them, and the horse treads the newly ploughed land down.
In the second, rarer case of a chariot or soldier and two horses, the chariot moves to give check, uncovering a double check from the two horses.
In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same.
Designer Franck Sorbier incorporated two horses into his show, which was a tribute to Mexican actress Maria Felix and featured two equestrian artists on horseback.
Mr Selous said: “New Year’s fireworks celebrations caused the deaths of two horses this year — one in my constituency.
The bridge – originally built to allow two horses to cross side-by-side – will be used by pedestrians and cyclists in the future.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club bought the aforementioned top lot, while leading British bloodstock agent Amanda Skiffington paid R2.75-million for two horses.
ViewChurchill Downs announced that trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. has been suspended after two horses trained by him died in the last.
A cart drawn by two horses is approaching a landing stage on the foreshore of the Medina at the end of Dodnor Lane, Newport.
One of them was Always in Trouble and to this day I’m always in trouble and the other horse was called Shawiya, all trained by Michael O’Brien a trainer from just outside of Naas and the two horses won that day.
The archival pigment print captures every shade of white on the elongated heads of the two horses.
Two horses looked hungry.
You can’t ride two horses at once and we’ve been reminded yet again by Sinn Féin’s reckless attitude and the risks they want us to take,’ he said.
It should be noted that you must have two horses that are tamed to be able to breed them.
Police gathered near the site where two horses found themselves stuck in a muddy ditch.
That was the question fans were asking after the two horses were separated into different races at the Arkansas Derby on Saturday.
The abuse was uncovered in February 2018 when the owner of the two horses suspected that there was something wrong with them.
The final two horses were pulled out of the water using a piece of heavy construction equipment and a harness.
My guide, Baptiste Auclair, met me in the park with a picnic of coffee and croissants, and two horses tucked into a trailer.