Sentence examples for been ridden hard from inspiring English sources
"I had been ridden hard".
These vehicles have been ridden hard over hundreds of miles of rough terrain, most recently a few dozen miles east, to confront an Iraqi armored division.
He was not encouraged when Axelrod, speaking about Democrats in Congress, noted, "The horse has been ridden hard this year and just wants to go back to the barn".
It's never: Here's the plan, here's what we're doing.' Said one Obama adviser, explaining the president's difficulty in motivating Congressional Democrats on energy: 'The horse has been ridden hard this year and just wants to go back to the barn.' " I just have one thing to add: We need to do better.
"It's perceived as hackneyed and old and tired, like a horse that's been rode hard and put away wet," Mr. Eidson said.
Chapman's yuppie life is the Trojan horse, but it is ridden hard.
He was ridden hard into the right corner by Capitals defenseman Joe Reekie.
She was challenged every step of the mile-and-an-eighth race, was ridden hard by Calvin Borel, and managed to hold off Macho Again by a diminishing head.
A car that feels like it's yours can be ridden hard, and then, because it's not actually yours, abandoned at the first sign of trouble.
Coal Play, who was ridden hard from the gate by Joe Bravo to get to the early lead, was pulling away from Big Brown on the far turn.
This is not to even suggest something like an infamous jockey room "election" in which it is decided which horse will be ridden hard, certainly not anything akin to point-shaving.
