cantering
IPA: kˈæntɝɪŋ
noun
- Movement at a canter.
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Examples of "cantering" in Sentences
- I was looking round for him but he was just cantering down in his own time.
- Just after passing the foot of the descent, he heard the hoof beats of a cantering horse.
- She added the role of Minnie, a poker-playing barmaid, last spring at San Francisco Opera, cantering into act three on horseback.
- We'd driven close to a small herd of buffalo cantering around the top of a rise north of the tribe's capitol in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
- Watching dozens of police horses cantering across the park, past a playground with swings and through a hail of missiles, one woman said she felt she was "dreaming".
- That they are inherited we see with horses in certain transmitted paces, such as cantering and ambling, which are not natural to them, -- in the pointing of young pointers and the setting of young setters -- in the peculiar COMEBACK manner of flight of certain breeds of the pigeon, &c.
- "That they" (acquired actions) "are inherited, we see with horses in certain transmitted paces, such as cantering and ambling, which are not natural to them -- in the pointing of young pointers, and the setting of young setters -- in the peculiar manner of flight of certain breeds of the pigeon, &c.
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