When deadlocks occur, the "dark horse" chosen is likely to be an inferior candidate.
They tell me that there may be another candidate in the field--a dark horse.
Mr. Thomas Gaylord has just entered the convention hall, and is said to be about to nominate--a dark horse.
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse.
This situation, opening the door for a compromise, brought a "dark horse" into the race for the first time in the history of national conventions.
Seymour endeavoured to side-track the "dark horse" movement by turning the tide to Marcy, whose vote kept steadily rising.
A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars.
Marshall's dark horse Sir Hugo captured the blue ribband at long odds.
Oh, yes, I agreed to bring in a dark horse, and I'll bring him in all right.
The nominee of this convention is no new and untried man, and in that respect he is no 'dark horse.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark horse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
