Sentence example with the word 'roughshod'

roughshod

Definition adj. (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping

Last update: October 28, 2015


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But Tait had none of Tillotson's gentleness, and he rode roughshod over the obstacles in his way.   [Please select]

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My cousin and I were a wild, unmanageable pair who rode roughshod over protest.   [Please select]

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"If I had my way," he answered, "I would ride roughshod through this village, and fire the thatch."   [Please select]

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She is vain, conceited, and selfish; and provided she gets her own way does not care what prejudices she rides roughshod over.   [Please select]

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Whatever her goal, whatever her faintest desire, she rode roughshod over all prejudices until she obtained it.   [Please select]

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And when the squat steersman again stood up McKay went after him roughshod.   [Please select]

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He's so absent-minded and goodnatured, he lets those boys ride over him roughshod.   [Please select]

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Philosophy engenders pity; and one who possesses that can not ride roughshod over men, and that is the business of kings.   [Please select]

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A never-to-be-forgotten winter, which had witnessed the martyrdom of England's King, and the exile of her chief nobility, while a rabble Parliament rode roughshod over a cowed people.   [Please select]

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