How to Use horse around in a Sentence

horse around

verb
  • As Mal looked on, the two men, drunk to the gills, were horsing around.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The youngsters sulk, stomp and scamper, pull pranks and horse around.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Bertuzzi accepted it, hugged his parents, and went back out to horse around.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • The day before the show, horsing around in the basement, Miles climbed on top of the puppet theatre, fell off, and nearly broke his nose.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But Priyanka, the oldest, drove her crazy, skipping school to horse around with her younger siblings.
    — Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Bella isn’t the only member of her family who loves to horse around.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 June 2024
  • Speaking of adorable, how great was that glimpse of McGee laughing at Parker and Torres horsing around in the final scene?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Ajiah Arceneaux, 16, races her horse around a barrel at a rodeo in Liberty, Texas.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The people outfitted in ape costumes could be seen trotting their horses around on the sand while members of the public looked on in shock.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps a gallop at Griffith Park or lunging — driving a horse around a circle on a rope — in a patch of land called the Pollywog.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the video, Payne is shown horsing around with a large outdoor crowd and his bandmates, encouraging the fans to quiet their screaming and then raise the volume all the way back up.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In the background, her housemates horse around, pretending to have a threesome—the kind of outrageous hookup their producers had hoped for all along.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • The pages featured the upper crust at play, horsing around and lounging about, untroubled yet serious.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Video went viral just days before the beginning of the 2024 Paris Olympics, where Dujardin was seen repeatedly whipping a horse around its legs.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Once a pony time, there lived in Philly-delphia a coltish, stag-geringly beautiful lass named Whinny, who wore a ponytail and horsed around with her family and friends.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Police and an ambulance responded to an Aug. 19 call from Hiram House Camp, where a rider had been bucked off her horse around noon but remained conscious and alert, although dizzy.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
  • After five teenage boys are shown horsing around on a Malibu beach for a few seconds, the shot dissolves into Liam’s perfect coif, his unbuttoned shirt, his disarming smile.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • That can include a weekend getaway to Santa Barbara, or just horsing around with his 5-year-old son playing a toddler version of basketball.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Among racing’s many problems is that there are no dedicated air shipping companies that make moving horses around the country easy.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Monday afternoon, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department responded to a call of possible horsing around.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Read full article For thirty minutes, Smith and her fellow pediatric cardiac patients rode horses around Windrush’s barn, releasing their anxieties and expressing their vulnerabilities to the intelligent animals.
    — Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023

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