How to Use bronco in a Sentence

bronco

noun
  • Aemond may as well be on a bucking bronco up in the sky.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Niggling grievances mount, like a seed stuck in your tooth or the burr in the saddle that sets off the bronco.
    Hannah Elliott, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Nobody dusts himself off and gets back on the bronco like this guy.
    Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • Then, in April 2016, Jandreau took a blow to the head from a bronco at a rodeo that put him in a coma for five and a half days.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In fact, keeping up with the show's dark side can be as daunting as breaking a bucking bronco.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • An anime Megan then hops on her bronco with her trusty Frenchie puppy 4oe at her side and gallops off into the night.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
  • While the scene is glitzy, at least in the marina, the sailors' office can be a dangerous salt-lashed bucking bronco with high stakes.
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
  • During the third episode of season 3, Jimmy got thrown by a bronco in his first rodeo that would count toward his standings.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2020
  • Cheer on bull and bronco riders, barrel racers and more at this rodeo June 29-July 1.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2017
  • Sure, youth can be intoxicating, but so is a guy who's been to a few rodeos and knows how to handle a bucking bronco.
    Nick Levine, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • In another case, a horse at the 2018 Folsom Rodeo fell during a bucking bronco event and lost the ability to move its hind legs.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Macdonald, still riding it like a bronco, unhooked the lines.
    Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • People of all ages came out to Rockin’ C Arena in Crosby to see bull riders, bucking bronco riders, calf wrestlers and more.
    Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019
  • Take note, Barry and Hill—and any other Democrats with designs on running this bucking bronco of a country.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Each and every truckette is amusing in much the same way the nickel bronco keeps junior enthralled while mommy shops at Kmart.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Football frenzy Get your home team ready to tackle this bronco-busting deal at 10 a.m. on July 16.
    Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Know, 1 July 2019
  • Throughout the reservation, ranching skills like sheep butchering and bronco and bull riding are prized.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Throughout the calf-roping, bronco-riding and steer wrestling, Doug Mathis, the rodeo public address announcer, keeps it light and folksy.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The bronco pendants patterned after his logo are his best sellers, cast in silver and require little hands-on work.
    Cindy Watts, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • New this year was a bucking bronco and a visit from a MetroHealth Life Flight helicopter was popular with attendees.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 10 July 2017
  • This year’s lineup once again features the Huck Trot 5K fun run, live music, bull and bronco riding, a huckleberry pie eating contest and a small-town parade.
    James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 3 Aug. 2017
  • More recently, Brady’s skull was fractured by a bronco in the ring, leaving him with a frightening scar on the side of his head and neurological damage that causes seizures in his right hand.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In the meanwhile, people who crawl through to sit inside the under-belly of the big knit can give themselves over to watching overlapping video montages of Bovan and a friend in York riding a bucking bronco.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Just make sure your seatbelt is holding you into the carbon-fiber bucket seats before slamming on the brakes, or you'll get thrown forward in the Stuttgart stallion like a cowboy on a bucking bronco.
    Mihir Maddireddy, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Lamontre Hosley, one of the fabled Compton Cowboys, thrilled the crowd on a bucking bronco for seconds that felt to me like agonizing minutes.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Few people can comfortably ride out the inevitable financial bronco ride.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Vic Fangio galloping into Mile High on an honest-to-goodness bronco.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
  • Nearby, another plane, this one designed to simulate severe turbulence, was bobbing up and down like a bronco on quaaludes.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • My own collection of hinge jewelry includes Rio’s Christ the Redeemer, a bucking bronco, a dog (of course), a ballerina, a cowboy and, my pride and joy, a flag-planting astronaut.
    Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Sutton made a race of it, leaning into a record of public service as well as his history as a professional bronco rider, a career that left him paralyzed.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018

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