unhorse

Example Sentences

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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inevitably, some Administration forces thought that McCarthy's move to unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a student worries the class with too earnest an exposition of a tense social problem, Professor Odum likes to unhorse him by growling Odumishly: "What of it?"

From Time Magazine Archive

And thus in succession did we break three pairs of lances' without either being able to unhorse, or gain any perceptible advantage over the other.

From With Ring of Shield by Magee, Knox