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kennel

[ken-l] / ˈkɛn l /


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"My wife and son have evacuated, but I'm staying because I want to be able to help my brother-in-law, who runs a kennel with 60 dogs, if they need to be evacuated," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

The Fourth of July is freedom day, but if you’re not paying attention, the celebrations might land your furry friends in a shelter kennel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

When I sent a picture of the economy-pod setup, more than a few friends said it looked like a dog kennel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Rob Holder, general manager at Clumber Park, said while the origins of the Clumber spaniel were not clear, they may have come from a kennel of prized spaniels gifted to the 2nd Duke.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his distant kennel in the courtyard: hope revived.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A German Shepherd dog, understood to have been involved in the incident, had been seized by police officers and remained in police kennels, the spokesperson added.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Evidence from his son's cell phone indicated, however, that Murdaugh was the only person with his wife and son at the estate's dog kennels several minutes before they were killed.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Aimiee Sadler, chief executive of Dogs Playing for Life, said that the program helps make dogs more suitable for adoption and that keeping dogs confined to their kennels is equal to “incarceration.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Sri Lanka's police kennels department was mobilised to ensure that local street dogs did not attack Aloka, who was led on a leash held by an army commando.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Moniek was assigned to help repair the kennels while the dogs so feared by the prisoners were out on patrol.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

She had been monitoring Angel, a 2-year-old black German shepherd, who was kenneled in the back at the Palmdale shelter, in an area that required an escort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

By selling out Shiv, as he always does, and exploiting Kendall's insecurity that he's "not Logan," Roman has kenneled his siblings while securing a new dom in the White House.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

The prison authorities let them keep the dog kenneled in their cell as part of a program in which they train the animal for later use as a service dogs for disabled people.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2018

“He’s not getting the treatment he needs. He’s being kenneled like an animal.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2014

Boston Bull, I suppose, I think that's where Carlton was first kenneled.

From Letters of a Dakota Divorcee by Jane Burr

After 40 years in captivity they kept their spirits up by caring for a dog kennelled in their cell which they trained to work with vulnerable individuals.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2019

In Anglesey he built a castle, and kennelled the hounds he loved so well in a church, to find them all mad the next morning.

From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

I didn't know enough to understand the wrong of one lazy idler having this splendid place while the people he lived on kennelled in hovels.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller

Even the dogs had been kennelled, and the pious monks were healthfully occupied in the religious offices of the vespers.

From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

People went openly to the Staghouse, where the 'band of testimony' were kennelled, just as in our modern days they go to Scotland Yard to engage the services of a detective.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

He envisions having informational screenings playing in the waiting room, building on awareness programs the community is already doing on best practices like leashing and kenneling to keep pets from harm.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

But right soon a message reached him, from Rehoboth, of southern Massachusetts north of Rhode Island, that Head Captain Annawan was "kenneling" in Squannaconk Swamp, and plundering the farms outside.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

His book discusses types, methods of training, kenneling, diseases and all the other practical points relating to the use and care of the hound, etc.

From Taxidermy by Leon Luther Pray

The author takes up the origin and history of the breed, its development, breeding, kenneling, and training.

From Taxidermy by Leon Luther Pray

It was a snug, well-protected kenneling place, surrounded by the swamp.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

"We have police struggling to enforce and respond to dog incidents, huge delays getting to court costing hundreds of thousands in kennelling and police costs," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Forces in England and Wales say the costs of kennelling thousands of seized dogs, often for months at a time, have risen sixfold to £25m a year and many facilities were at capacity.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

Courts can order that police be repaid for costs caused by kennelling dogs seized in connection with a hare coursing-related offence.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2022

They had thought that fifteen people might attend, to see their demonstration of a lion-proof enclosure made with kennelling materials available at Home Depot.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

I would have seen thee before but had to attend to the kennelling of the hounds.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott




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