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• The dancers play Scheherazade, a princess, a prince on horseback, a witch and her minions.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2022
• Ray covered much of the rugged land on horseback and by foot.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The men in the party rode on horseback and were armed with rifles and swords.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2022
• Indeed, the Queen is known to explore the grounds on horseback (or behind the wheel of a Range Rover).
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 July 2022
• Some soldiers are on horseback, and some play in bands.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Three days later, agents on horseback chased after a group of Haitians along the banks of the Rio Grande.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• Later, the royals on horseback showed off their salute with one hand on the reins.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• The delay kept him and Herold off the road until around 7 p.m. on April 15, when the two left the doctor’s home on horseback.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• Robert Nichols, 53, watched a line of classic cars and cowboys on horseback make its way down the street.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 4 July 2023
• At 74 years old, Charles rode on horseback throughout the two hours of parading.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• Her three children sat with her, while Prince William rode on horseback to the parade.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 15 June 2024
• The last time Queen Elizabeth II rode in on horseback was at the 1986 parade.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 June 2023
• Many of which didn’t pan out — like his passion for a strange new sport: fencing, but on horseback.
  — Outside Online, 31 July 2024
• The new owners can explore Goose Green Farm on horseback.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
• There’s Tia and Bobbie Lou on horseback a few years later.
  — Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• Ethan shows up on horseback, a dazzling sight wrapped in scarves and goggles designed to shield him from the swirly, sandy wind.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 July 2023
• Cover unexplored ground on horseback or learn some tricks of the trade in the arena.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Cops flooded the sprawling 240-acre park over the weekend, placing lights along the path and patrolling the trail on horseback.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
• The largest forests have trails (running from easy to advanced) that can be accessed by foot or on horseback.
  — Julie Destefano, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
• Hence the poor fellow, near the beginning, who, while on horseback, gets hit in the head not by an arrow but by a coin.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Officers on horseback tried to push protesters off a road in Tel Aviv but could not, and some in the crowd set fires in the streets.
  — Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• The soldiers patrolled the area on horseback until 1944.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024
• At Little Union, police rode into the chapel on horseback and beat the pastor bloody right there in the pulpit.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• Fringe like that is not really best on horseback, would be the point, but at the bar in the Ritz or in Les Deux Magots, zero problem.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• The war of words escalates into a shootout on horseback, with Bass shooting Esau off his horse.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is one reason why many bear hunters hunted on horseback to keep up with the chase and reach the bay site as swiftly as possible.
  — Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• The protesters are forced out of the square by police on horseback, and using water cannons and dogs.
  — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The disappearance and death of the teenager stunned the small town of Spring Creek, where she was renowned for driving cattle on horseback and was part of the local rodeo scene.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• The left side of the road was, by long cultural convention, reserved for carriages and those on horseback.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• In 2021, in Monroe, Mich., where Custer and his wife grew up, residents called for the monument of Custer on horseback to be removed.
  — Time, 25 June 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024