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Example sentences for: hangdog
How can you use “hangdog” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Felicity has become hangdog and whiny.
In The Luck of the Bodkins , P.G. Wodehouse remarked on the ...look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French....
Where Lee Marvin in Point Blank was an automaton, Gibson oscillates between bug-eyed monomania and hangdog embarrassment.
There's a kind of dignity in Lehrer's plodding reluctance to opine, in his hangdog humility, in his desire to serve as moderator rather than interrogator.
They lurk outside bars and restaurants begging change from passers-by, flashing curled lips and hangdog stares, as precious in their own way as any amateur anthropologist taking her first cautious steps east of First Avenue in breathless anticipation of a walk on the wild side.