heeler

Example Sentences

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Luckily, the 2½-year-old Australian blue heeler, or cattle dog, the same breed as Bluey in the eponymous hit TV show, has not lost his signature sparkle.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Bluey is a blue heeler dog, who lives with her mum, dad and little sister, Bingo.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

She likes “Bluey,” an Australian cartoon about a blue heeler cattle dog, and “Blippi,” a children’s show on YouTube, which her father described as a “modern-day Pee-wee Herman.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Nearby at the sprawling Creekside mixed-use complex, which used to be a cow pasture, Faith Caddy walked her two dogs, a husky-Labrador mix named Odin and a red heeler named Luna.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

The dumbest ward heeler was smart enough to know that time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith