How to Use horseman in a Sentence

horseman

noun
  • Four horsemen, on top of the world.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • This is the exact moment when the third horseman takes its seat at the table.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For more on this horseman, check out this news release by Mark Ratzky.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The era felt something akin to end times, minus the horsemen and locusts.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Why would horsemen from all over the globe choose to ship and run on this particular grass?
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Three horsemen burst forth from the ranch, setting off a flurry of gunfire.
    — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • War, famine, disease and death — all four horsemen of the apocalypse.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Did social media cause an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student?
    — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Did social media cause an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student?
    — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Both are accomplished horsemen and work cattle on the weekends at a friend’s ranch.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • In one of the hunts, called a xingwei, horsemen armed with bows formed a vast semicircle to push wildlife ahead of them.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • As an avid horseman, Blakely wears a cowboy hat, boots and shiny belt buckle.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 6 July 2021
  • The first horseman, and perhaps the most common, is criticism.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Most say the film is on the funnier side, but there are definitely moments of creep thanks to the horseman.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2022
  • The green at Kentucky Downs has not just been limited to the horsemen.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • If this was not apocalyptic enough, a fifth horseman is now galloping around the globe.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • That is why the Eurasian steppe is fringed to the south with barriers designed to forestall horsemen.
    — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The click-clack of Tonka’s hooves on the asphalt alerted bystanders to the masked horseman in their midst.
    — Alex Hawgood, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Yakteen is considered a very good horseman who has never been on the national stage as the front man.
    — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • The six horsemen follow upstairs, to the upper floors, into the apartment.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • While the first two horsemen are concerned with frustration and blame, contempt serves to convey disgust.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Not every black leader has embraced the move to scrub the three horsemen from Stone Mountain.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Several compelling clues led the researchers to link the horseman to du Bellay.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The former posits that the dish was invented by Central Asian horsemen.
    — Popular Science, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The horsemen are a key part of Spanish bullfighting, to tire the bull ahead of its final death at the hands of the matador.
    — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Criticism The first horseman, as well as the most common one, is criticism.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Mendelssohn is indeed a very nice horse and Aidan O’Brien is indeed a brilliant horseman.
    — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018
  • But her Dothraki troops, horsemen from the east with hooked swords and heavy eye shadow, proved themselves more than a match for western forces.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • The book of Revelation says that the first horseman of the apocalypse rode a white horse and went forth to conquer.
    — Leif Wenar, WSJ, 2 May 2022

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