dog

Example Sentences

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Now, when we approach kids crowding the sidewalk, a curbside puddle or a dog crouching to pee, I stop and extend my arm like Sir Walter Raleigh, offering Sarah the right of first passage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

During the operation in the Complexo da Mare, a large complex of favelas in the north of the city, a dog named Hulk indicated there was something suspicious under an abandoned water tank.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

“It takes a while to knock the big dog off the porch,” Carter said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Sophie’s boyfriend William Lang moved to Los Angeles and joined her and her dog in the ADU, bringing his two cats with him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

A couple of kids race past us in hot pursuit of a rez dog with a piece of frybread in its mouth.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith