Gift-horse Sentence Examples

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  • No, he wouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth, not when the embodiment of her ability sat hunched before him.

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  • Being ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, we graciously accepted.

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  • Other films included The Third Man (1949), Gift Horse (1952), and Whistle Down the Wind (1961).

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