Colt

//koʊlt//

"Colt" in a Sentence (20 examples)

The wildest colt makes the best horse.

The mother fed the newborn colt.

The monkey rode on the colt.

The colt was finally able to stand and followed tottering after its mother.

The colt reared and threw the tall rider.

Is Cookie a colt or a filly?

Tom stroked the colt.

The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.

Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.

The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.

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Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.

What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?

They shook off their bridles and began to colt.

We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!

[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.

It took two years for Colt and his extended family to find the ideal land on which to spend the rest of their lives.

Only in it she held a derringer in her hand, not a Colt. But that look of disbelief on Leonard's face could not have been more real.

He saw the shotgunner stagger into the lingering cloud of smoke. He jumped to his feet before the man could reload and charged toward him. The man dropped his shotgun and clawed for his pistol, a blueblack hole in his left leg, near the groin. John stopped and fired his Colt, aiming for the man's heart. But Luke's left leg gave way and tilted him sideways, so the bullet from John's gun struck his right shoulder, spun him like a top. His pistol slipped from his hand.

His soldier's instinct had him dropping to the ground before he even thought of it, and Captain Hargreaves fired his Colt. The bullet zoomed over Butsko's head and whacked in the chest of the hapless soldier who'd been standing behind him. Butsko rolled over on the ground, stopped, and brought his rifle quickly to his shoulder as Captain Hargreaves fired again, his bullet burrowing in the muck six inches from Butsko's face. Butsko fired at Captain Hargreaves ...

Clint snap-aimed and fired his Colt. The man's stetson whirled off his head. So did part of his skull. The second gunman bounced up and fired a shot at the Gunsmith. The bullet struck the dead flesh of Clint's cover. The Gunsmith fired back and saw a crimson spider appear at the man's shoulder. The gunman groaned and bolted for the side exit. Clint pointed his Colt and squeezed the trigger. The hammer struck the firing pin and drove it into an empty chamber.

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