Crossword-Solution: REINING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Reining | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Rein |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REINING | anagram | NIGRINE |
We have 9 clues for the answer “REINING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Checking with the bridle. | 1 answer |
| Controlling, as a steed | 1 answer |
| Holding back, with "in" | 1 answer |
| Keeping under control | 1 answer |
| Pulling certain strings | 1 answer |
| Slowing a horse, with "in" | 1 answer |
| Holding in check | 2 answers |
| CHECKING | 4 answers |
| holding back | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REINING (5)
Happily, however, there was sleep in Beauvais that night to help them out of it and they passed on once more into solitude and loneliness: jingling through the untimely cold and wet, among impoverished fields that had yielded no fruits of the earth that year, diversified by the blackened remains of burnt houses, and by the sudden emergence from ambuscade, and sharp reining up across their way, of patriot patrols on the watch on all the roads.
Once more McTeague felt the mysterious intuition of approaching danger; an unseen hand seemed reining his head eastward; a spur was in his flanks that seemed to urge him to hurry, hurry, hurry.
Horse and man swept up to them like a whirlwind; and then, reining up the reeling charger, the general turned on them a face like flame, and called for the colonel like the trumpet that wakes the dead.
Reining up his horse within a few yards of the ambuscade, he wrapped his cloak round his bridle-arm and summoned the party to stand forth.
The leader of the nearer party spurred forward to intercept the little band, and, reining in before them, cried brusquely, “Who be ye?” “A party on a peaceful mission to the shops of London,” replied Norman of Torn.
Quotes with REINING (3)
reining yourself in because why ruin a good thing? why make it weird? and then you say goodbye, with a hug, with a snarky remark, and head home. you climb into bed and imagine them with you. you think about how their hair falls in their face, about how they breathe when they sleep. you think about them waking up and nudging you into consciousness with soft kisses down your torso. you sit in bed and think of all the ways you could make their soul dance. how you know their quir…
But Amarantha rolled her eyes and slouched in her throne. “Shatter him, Rhysand.” She flicked a hand at the High Lord of the Summer Court. “You may do what you want with the body afterward.” The High Lord of the Summer Court bowed — as if he’d been given a gift — and looked to his subject, who had gone still and calm on the floor, hugging his knees. The male faerie was ready — relieved. Rhys slipped a hand out of his pocket, and it dangled at his side. I could have sworn phan…
The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a "con."... As it is considered treasonous to criticise a sister feminist, no standards of accuracy or honesty are ever enforced. Hyperbole and deceit thus become the formula for success, "peer review" playing no role in reining in misinformation. Any would-be feminist who raises scholarly objections to the rampant misinformation is branded an 'enemy of women' and is drummed out of the movement.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).