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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of neigh.

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Examples

  • And strange, but Alroy was relieved by having given way to his emotion, and, charmed with the fondness of the faithful horse, he leant down and took water, and threw it over its feet to cool them, and wiped the foam from its face, and washed it, and the horse again neighed.

    Chapter 1 - Part II 1822

  • Apelles then brought it over to show Bucephalas, who neighed in apparent approval.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • She neighed at the presentation of a glass pony and described the benefactor as the most gorgeous woman with legs as tall as skyscrapers.

    Salutes to the Creative Class Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Apelles then brought it over to show Bucephalas, who neighed in apparent approval.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The horses neighed, snapped, reared, and fought as best they could, but in the end, they had about as much chance at escape as we did.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • “Thank you,” he neighed even though he had taught himself not to neigh.

    A Boy Who Looks Like Horses, or A Horse Who Looks Like Boys Nathaniel Tower 2012

  • A carnival should be all growls, roars like timberlands stacked, bundled, rolled and crashed, great explosions of lion dust, men ablaze with working anger, pop bottles jangling, horse brasses shivering, engines and elephants in full stampede through rains of sweat while zebras neighed and trembled and like cage trapped in cage.

    Carnival of the Liberals 88 2009

  • Apelles then brought it over to show Bucephalas, who neighed in apparent approval.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Mr. Giggles neighed loudly as I set his foot back on the ground.

    Death Rides A Donkey Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • He jerked the rope again, and the horse neighed and nipped.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

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