hound dog

Example Sentences

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Last summer I found a criminally cute hound dog who checked at least one of the boxes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2024

Steve is the sensible, sensitive mate who evens us out as opposed to the kicked hound dog who waits by the door for his mistress.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

Somebody who ain't nothin' but a hound dog has made off with an Elvis Presley bust from a Central Illinois saloon.

From Fox News • Oct. 28, 2021

He’s Labbish but seems to have some hound dog in him, maybe Great Dane, maybe Weimaraner.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2020

She told me that if I ever did anything like that again I could just pack my clothes and leave, and I could take that drunken old hound dog with me when I left.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls