Horseshoe

//ˈhɔːs.ʃuː//

"Horseshoe" in a Sentence (16 examples)

This is a horseshoe magnet.

A horseshoe and a black cat are not good luck signs.

A horseshoe and a four-leaf clover bring good luck.

The smith used the tongs to pick up the horseshoe.

"I got you some horseshoe sauce packets." "Did you just say horseshoe sauce? Surely you mean horseradish sauce."

Yanni always carries a small horseshoe in his pocket.

The horseshoe brings luck and has apotropaic meaning.

During the next few weeks, beaches on America’s Atlantic coast will play host to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world, horseshoe crabs, which are swimming in from deeper waters for their annual spawning.

When this crab gets injured, gets a little cut on its body, bacteria can get into it from the water, so the Horseshoe crab blood actually Jell-O’s around those bacteria and stops them from getting into the Horseshoe crab body.

For some, the horseshoe is a symbol of good luck.

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And what has been thus affirmed of other leading commodities; the blacksmith, for example, no longer making, but buying his horseshoes, nails, nuts, and bolts;

The ancient Romans [...] used leather horseshoes; the Chinese made straw sandals for their mounts; and American Indians used leather moccasins, which they tied around their horses ' ankles. In days of old, people took their horses to the smithy to be shod.

Each player has a turn at tossing his horseshoes, one at a time, at the stob opposite him. His opponent then throws his horseshoes.

If there are no missing teeth and tooth alignment is good, two opposing well-defined horseshoes are seen. If, however, your denitition is mal-aligned or is missing anterior teeth, this pattern too should be reflected in the bite mark.

Whereas the railway heads inland to take the easier but much longer horseshoe-shaped route around the firth, the A9 directly crosses it from north to south on a bridge built in 1991.

The lateral head of your triceps forms the outside of the horseshoe, the long head forms the inside, the medial head lies beneath the long head, and the tendon occupies the flat space in the middle.

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