How to Use dead horse in a Sentence

dead horse

noun

• Twelve dead horses — two on the undercard of the Kentucky Derby — put the venerable sport under red hot scrutiny.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• Of beating the same dead horse of an idea over and over again?
  — Alyssa Brandt, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Still, that’s the dead horse that has been walloped and clubbed for much of the last two months.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• This is the dead horse in Texas Tech discourse and no one wants to hear it again.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
• There was a little path or roadway with a dead horse on the ground.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 26 Jan. 2018
• Not to beat the proverbial dead horse here, but read the product package.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2018
• On the screen to the top right corner, a dead horse lies on a desecrated field.
  — Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• Not to beat a dead horse here, but oh my goodness, the resonance.
  — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021
• Children would play with dead horses lying on the streets.
  — Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
• Writing on it again feels a little bit like beating a dead horse.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Dec. 2021
• At risk of beating a dead horse, Castellanos is almost too perfect a fit for the Sox in right field.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• That’s 199 dead horses at one track in four racing seasons.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
• And usually the coffee's really good too, so coffee, meat pie, and a bit of the old dead horse, a bit of tomato sauce on top.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2018
• At the risk of beating a dead horse, Medina Spirit still matters.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2022
• Well, that may be a dead horse – one which apparently can't throw downfield or sustain a drive.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
• No disturbance of the horrors of war that have been scattered around the film's battlefield (which range from dead horses, to much, much worse).
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• What use is a symbolic dead horse, if not for a sound symbolic beating?
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
• In other words, stop trying to beat a dead horse with certain people, jobs, or groups that are simply a wasteland for your bright light.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2022
• The dead horses range from foals to full grown horses, some of which were pregnant, and all appear to have died from gunshot wounds, Floyd County sheriff's Sgt.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 23 Dec. 2019
• In the 1890s, big cities around the world were grappling with growing volumes of horse manure and urine and the rotting bodies of thousands of dead horses, spreading disease.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• On the grimmer end is a postcard with a photo of a dead horse slumped on the sidewalk of a Crockett Street storefront, a victim of the 1921 flood that swept through downtown San Antonio.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• The commission cleaned out latrines and cesspits, flushed out sewers and removed a dead horse that was polluting the water supply.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• The last hundred pages of the book achieve momentous power, an epic grandeur—carriages and carts, dead horses frozen in icy lakes, Russian bombers above, French prisoners of war on the move.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016
• Also: East Kentucky is still littered with dead horses.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 25 Feb. 2020
• And writing about that week after week after week is monotonous and beating a dead horse.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• Actors, dancers, and mimes were hired to wear meticulously constructed ape suits, wild animals were housed at the Southampton Zoo, and a dead horse was painted to look like a zebra.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Not wanting to beat a dead horse, but if the pundit’s advice was followed, namely do not report the rather bland or inoffensive circumstance, here’s what could arise.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The defiant version is grim and vacant, a dead horse taking another beating.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2021
• Months after the stallion Laoban drew his last breath, thoroughbred owner Jerry Jamgotchian made a series of seven-figure offers for a stake in the dead horse.
  — Tim Sullivan, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• Not to beat a dead horse, but every other country in the world (apart from Eritrea) has somehow managed to balance these concerns in a satisfactory manner and is no worse off for it.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 7 June 2021

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024