How do you use the word "mare" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "mare" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "mare": Some good-for-nothing at this gutter paper here spread this mare's nest. The prancing chestnut mare neighed as she tried to get rid of the rider.

Mare Meaning

/mɛə/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn adult female horse.

nounA foolish woman.

Sentence Examples

Some good-for-nothing at this gutter paper here spread this mare's nest.

The prancing chestnut mare neighed as she tried to get rid of the rider.

I cannot moo like a cow. I'm a mare!

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer led the gentle ____ into the stable for the night after a long day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ was grazing in the green meadow with her young foal, who was staying very close to her side tonight.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English mare, meare, meir, mer, mere, meyre, mure, from Old English mīere (“female horse, mare”), from Proto-West Germanic *marhijā, from Proto-Germanic *marhijō (“female horse”), from *marhaz (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *márkos (“horse”). Cognates Cognate with Scots mere (“mare”), Saterland Frisian Märe (“mare”), West Frisian merje (“mare”), Dutch merrie (“mare”), German Mähre (“female horse”), Danish mær (“old mare”), Faroese mer (“mare”), Icelandic meri (“mare”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk merr (“mare”), Swedish mæhr, mær, mähr, märr (“mare”); also Breton marc'h (“horse”), Cornish margh (“horse”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic marc (“horse”), Welsh march (“horse”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]." — 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

"The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?" — 2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple:

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