Sentence examples for on a hoof from inspiring English sources

Most likely to: Ride into the future on a Hoof of Destiny.

In some advanced forms the central toe was much larger than the two lateral toes and carried most of the weight of the body on a hoof much like that of modern horses.

Tiznow, beaten in his last start and running on a hoof patched with screws and wire, was a runaway winner of the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap yesterday in Arcadia, Calif.

And while shoes worn by racehorses are also lighter, Cheltenham's clerk of the course Simon Claisse says "they are still a piece of metal on the end of a hoof, something which has barely changed in centuries".

With more than 100 exhibits – including a giant 56-year-old elephant, a giraffe balanced on one hoof, a blood-red shark and a hairless gorilla – it is the most recent creation of the 21st-century Frankenstein, Gunther von Hagens.

13 min: The Equatorial Guinea keeper has a hoof on him and whacks his goal kick to the edge of the Libya box.

"Basically you cannot have something with a hoof walk on plastic and not poke a hole in the plastic and let water into it," said LeRoy Lippert, chairman of the county emergency management commission.

At different points in the gallop, all weight is resting on one front hoof, then all on one rear hoof.

Elsewhere the intrusions seem to be more about assembling an on-the-hoof literary manifesto.

Phillips develops his abstruse theme over five chapters, the bulk of the text taking the form of an on-the-hoof gloss on 19th-century writers interested in ideas of secular morality (Wilde, Nietzsche and Freud are paraphrased and riffed on at special length).

But, he added: "Instead of dropping her and starting again, it puts the cart before the horse and proposes an on-the-hoof restructuring of the House, all it seems, in order to accommodate her appointment.