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  • adjective (of a rider) sore after riding a horse

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Examples

  • How long did it take you to get over that hideous, saddle-sore feeling?

    Kate Hanni: Airline Seat Pitch as a Profit Booster? Kate Hanni 2010

  • On the second floor, Cartier-Bresson's photographs (all from the Fondation) are the work of a younger man (Strand was 18 years his senior), less saddle-sore, seemingly more optimistic.

    Two Sides of the Same Coin Tobias Grey 2012

  • How long did it take you to get over that hideous, saddle-sore feeling?

    Kate Hanni: Airline Seat Pitch as a Profit Booster? Kate Hanni 2010

  • How long did it take you to get over that hideous, saddle-sore feeling?

    Kate Hanni: Airline Seat Pitch as a Profit Booster? Kate Hanni 2010

  • Having cycled out of Sheffield on Saturday, the team are due to arrive at Trafalgar Square today? via Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Stratford, Oxford and Reading? then to finish at Earl's Court, the 2012 volleyball venue, saddle-sore, but undaunted.

    London 2012 Olympics: Volleyball players on their bikes to raise cash 2010

  • But even then it was only to take to the woods on foot, groping through the night with your hand at one man's belt while another held you behind, trying for dear life not to thrash about like a mad bear in a cane-break, gripping your rifle and gritting your teeth against the pain of saddle-sore buttocks.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • This morning was the long ride - 80k - but I felt much more comfortable, if a little saddle-sore.

    Journal for 14 December 2000 Alex Allan 2009

  • But we know you like any song about a saddle-sore cowpoke riding into a saloon town of soakin 'wet girls to get some time in the rack with his four-bit hooker.

    Don Parker: Aerosmith, Rep. Cantor, Hookers, and Hypocrisy 2009

  • “Not that,” he said, dismounting; only a man, for an instant, saddle-sore and weary.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • The dusty and saddle-sore mage walked slowly toward the gates, placing his feet carefully and using his chaos-order senses to guide him.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

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