hound

Example Sentences

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The act of striving for more, like some frenzied truffle hound, is usually an attempt to override fear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Among typical dog breeds, the great Anglo-French tricolor hound had the strongest signal at 4.7 to 5.7 percent, followed by the Shiloh shepherd at 2.7 percent.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

Fans going to hound out Peter Lawwell again?

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

This was not the first time in my uncle’s 30-year incarceration that we’ve had to hound the Florida Department of Corrections for answers about his well-being.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

In his own way, Rowdy was telling the whole wide world that he was a happy hound.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls