horseman - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • see: On a stormy night in 1336 the local villagers saw a lone horseman dressed in black approach the castle.
  • come: Out of the night, When the full moon is bright, Comes the horseman known as Zorro.
  • have: Today we don't just have Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse but an entire cavalry regiment of doom-mongers.
  • send: Brian Boru sent horsemen forward to plunder all around the Dublin settlement.

Adjective modifier

  • headless: There is a headless horseman who patrols along the Tyndall Avenue at night on his black horse.
  • accomplished: An accomplished horseman, he built a superb Riding School within the castle walls.
  • skilled: Tristram embodied the chivalrous and knightly ideal: he was a hunter, a musician, a skilled horseman and a master of languages.
  • keen: Fed up with a career in computer engineering, keen horseman Steve Almond left the UK to run horse riding holidays in Andalusia.
  • excellent: As well as an excellent horseman he was a keen rugby player; he also started writing poetry in his teens.

Modifies a noun

  • anemone: The horseman anemone is bigger, with smaller warts which do not usually have gravel stuck to them.
  • ride: He fell into the sink What does a headless horseman ride?

Noun used with modifier

  • master: In addition he is a master horseman, extremely fit, and very acrobatic.

Preposition: in

  • triumph: Interestingly, around 1,000 years separate the two ' horseman in triumph ' examples mentioned above.

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