bridle - use in sentences

Object

  • horse: But when eventually they came to bridle the horses, they found their hooves almost severed from their legs.

Preposition: on

  • horse: Us a bridle on the horse to line up the edge of the clip with the bridle cheek piece.

Preposition: at

  • suggestion: But she bridles at the suggestion that neither she, nor anyone else, can live with the Williams sisters.

Converse of object

  • draw: Sometimes he saw her cantering past; she always acknowledged his 2004 business business commerce e news salute, but never drew bridle.
  • put: Feeling very strange, I patiently stood while Ellen showed the little girl how to put a bridle on.
  • hold: The strap under a horses throat which holds the bridle in position.
  • have: We have had a bridle on her and she has been sat on.
  • loop: The young man looped the bridle over a low maple limb, and leaving the horse standing sauntered over to the bench.
  • take: I took advice bridle on, long rein and treat him when he went in ok.

Adjective modifier

  • bitless: The reins fell loosely against Pegasus's shoulders which led up to a bitless bridle.
  • double: Aims to combine the two bits of a double bridle into a single mouthpiece.

Modifies a noun

  • path: Where the bridle path bears left, a track carries straight on.
  • gate: Beyond the wood the path climbs very steeply to a bridle gate in the right hand corner of the field.
  • track: Proceed to a lane, turn left, then first right on a bridle track to Redwood.
  • way: They can play football on the football field or use bridle ways for mountain biking.
  • route: Swan's Way is a long distance bridle route running from Salcey Forest to Goring on the Thames.
  • road: By crossing over the locks you will be able to join the bridle road from Gumley in order to return to Foxton Village.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: Do not bridle up the free spirit by the rules of method.

Noun used with modifier

  • leather: The brown leather bridle handles with stud details look perfect against the squashy structure of the bag.

Possessives

  • horse: No wonder blood will stand to the horses ' bridles from a distance of two hundred miles from Jerusalem.

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