How to Use warhorse in a Sentence

warhorse

noun
  • Again, a première was matched to a warhorse.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • The same brisket couldn’t help that old bar warhorse, potato skins, cooked too hard to cut with a fork.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The warhorses are coming to town and von Oeyen is ready for them.
    — Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 18 Jan. 2018
  • There is a good reason why certain warhorses still ride the range.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This is a warhorse expected to pull a buggy around a cottage.
    — Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Osgood Perkins’ Keeper wants to add a few wrinkles to this old warhorse’s mix.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Predictability is their business, and warhorses are their stock-in-trade.
    — Paul Hodgins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • Peeke, a warhorse all night, stepped into it and blasted a slapper that broke through Ullmark and hit the post.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Great timing for the trailer for this remake of the Frank Herbert warhorse to drop.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
  • All those slick remakes of beloved old properties, all those paint-by-numbers genre warhorses with beloved movie stars in the lead.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The easygoing country warhorse makes his first Detroit visit in eight years.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
  • At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Standards are what Bublé does best — and back then, those warhorse songs drove the holiday-music market.
    — Chris Molanphy, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That was a revelatory performance of an old warhorse; perhaps this will be, too.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Spielberg and Kushner were right to bring modern attitudes to this beloved warhorse.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.
    — Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But these warhorses have been rejuvenated in startling ways.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The soundtrack puts Kiss and ZZ Top and other classic rock warhorses to work.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Presented with a phalanx of warhorses like that, you can be forgiven for thinking there must be a glue factory not far down the road.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • So how to make this old warhorse gallop like the thoroughbreds that vex the inveterate gamblers in the show’s opening number?
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • No More’s approach to the Allmans’ music reflects another way of putting a fresh coat of paint on a warhorse band.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • However, those were small missteps in what was overall an engrossing perspective shift for the warhorse opera, one that cast new light on many of its calling cards.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Each time, the warhorse returned to combat an often-unseen enemy lurking somewhere below.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
  • One of her preferred motifs was that abstractionist warhorse, a pattern of stripes—structural or decorative, take your pick.
    — Barry Schwabsky, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Working his magic on the ground and through the air, DePaul rumbled like a warhorse and delivered like a big time playmaker.
    — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Everyone, that is, but the unflappable soloist, Vadim Gluzman, who rode the Russian warhorse to victory.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Under normal circumstances, a warhorse like the Fifth might solicit a more routine account, but there was nothing routine about this occasion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
  • Few summer orchestral concerts have a program as smartly curated as this one — absolutely accessible, with nary a warhorse in sight.
    — Peter Dobrin, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019

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