Example sentences for: dogged

How can you use “dogged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nic's wife dreams of coming upon Nic in a jazz combo, then dancing half-naked for old people; Nic dreams of being dogged at a train station by a gangly cretin who then stabs him.

  • Scandal dogged her again in 1992, when she lost a vicious four-way primary.

  • U.S. fighter jets dogged passenger planes in two incidents.

  • Although it is the presenter who has ultimate control in the encounter--a control he may legitimate in terms of the interests of the “listeners out there,” their right to be entertained and to be protected from offensive views--the listeners who call in may challenge the norms he lays down in various ways, from dogged pursuit of a “personal relationship” with the presenter to equally dogged resistance to the “containment strategies” presenters employ.

  • Friday, Feb. 5) is a slightly tonier version of Cops -- sans the screaming drunks--in which detectives use dogged legwork to find the killer in a drive-by homicide, and then some more detectives go undercover to entrap male prostitutes.


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