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
Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"The instinct of the sleuthhound," he said to himself, "is all very well, but why on earth haven't I told Furley about the car?"
From The Devil's Paw by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
This explains why the dog has sometimes been called a sleuthhound; that is, a dog set upon a sleuth, or trail.
From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
