sleuthhound
Example Sentences
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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
"You'll turn me into a regular sleuthhound," he laughed.
From The Pawns Count by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Baxter the watchdog must retire, to be succeeded by Baxter the sleuthhound.
From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
She was working like a regular sleuthhound, now, too, slowly, picking up the trail and following it, baying as she went.
From Guy Garrick by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
