How to Use colt in a Sentence

colt

noun

• But a foot issue scratched the colt the week of the race.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 2 Oct. 2020
• The colt won again the next month in an allowance race.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2020
• The undefeated colt drew the rail in the 12-horse field.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 4 Nov. 2021
• And then the colt seemed to come apart, crumpling to the ground and tossing Gaffalione.
  — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• The cause of the death was still pending on the unraced 3-year-old colt.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
• The colt picked up a win last month at the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 6 May 2022
• The colt has three wins and three seconds in his six races.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 May 2022
• Alas, Leon and his colt finished a neck short of the winner.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• The colt ran at the tail of the field for most of the race before closing to a sixth-place finish.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2022
• His 15 length win two starts back came against a colt who has won twice and both on the turf.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• So Baffert wasn’t shocked when the bay colt came through.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Just over four weeks later, the 3-year-old colt was dead.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
• King Guillermo, the colt that drew the sixth gate, was scratched from the race on Thursday.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2020
• The colt’s lone victory came by 7.5 lengths at the Fair Grounds on Dec. 3.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• The two scientists missed watching the colts hatch and grow.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The colt held on at the wire as Keepmeinmind, a 30-1 long shot, made a late charge.
  — Gary B. Graves, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• George Herman Ruth was a big gray colt with a sharp eye.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• Tiz the Law won the Belmont, but the colt couldn’t run to the wire with Authentic at the Derby.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 Oct. 2020
• But after winning the Run for the Roses at 80-1, the colt was held out of the Preakness Stakes.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2022
• This 4-year-old colt has never been off the board in 11 starts but this is his first Grade 1 start.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• On the day of the Jerkens Memorial, the colt bounced out of the gate and led every step of the seven-furlong sprint.
  — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some had wondered how the 4-year-old colt would do going around two turns for the first time.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• Chicks, called colts, will stay with their parents for 10 months.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2019
• The colt, who was scratched the day of the Kentucky Derby, is the early favorite for the Belmont Stakes.
  — Beth Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• This season has been special for the 4-year-old colt trained by Bill Mott.
  — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
• With 50-1 odds, his horse, a three-year-old colt named West Saratoga, is a long shot.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
• That win in November earned him the Eclipse Award for best 2-year-old colt.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
• Flavien Prat will be aboard, the fifth different jockey for the colt.
  — James Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• The bay colt was followed in the morning line odds by Sierra Leone at 3-1 and Catching Freedom at 8-1.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 3 May 2024
• But a few days later it was discovered that the medication was given to the colt in ointment for a rash on his hind quarters.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024