Example sentences for: hound

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

  • "I'm about as big a media hound as anyone," McCain told one newspaper, but "I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue."

  • Today, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and the rest of his early work-- The Real Inspector Hound and Jumpers , as well as numerous short plays for stage, television, and radio--are best appreciated as part of the golden age of English silliness, a moment that produced such indelible monuments of the human spirit as A Hard Day's Night and Monty Python's Flying Circus .

  • In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').

  • After 30 years as a troublemaker, bully, and media hound, O'Hair vanished in late 1995 along with her son and granddaughter.

  • Is he "a fresh wind from New York," as one paper put it, or a would-be "Culture Pope," which is to say, an American-style media hound whose appointment should make German voters think twice about electing his boss?


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