Examples of “warhorse” in a Sentence

noun Someone who has faced many difficult situations over a long career and is highly experienced.

• Among other accidents of that year was a Democratic president. Judge Atwood was a warhorse of Democracy. — O. Henry pseudonym; William Sydney Porter, Cupid’s Exile Number Two (1904)
• Certainly this was a bold proposal to an old warhorse like Ecuyer, and, like a true English bulldog, he voiced a reply which made the Indians wince. — Charles H. L. Johnston, Famous Indian Chiefs (1909)

noun A play or piece of music that is performed again and again, sometimes so often that it feels overused.

• I remember taking the old warhorse, “Una Voce Poco Fa,” from Il Barbiere (Rossini) to three of the greatest living singing masters in Italy. — Millie Ryan, What Every Singer Should Know (1910)