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
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
Enoch Standring had something of the sleuthhound in his nature.
From The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
Baxter the watchdog must retire, to be succeeded by Baxter the sleuthhound.
From Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
