Example sentences for: hound

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

  • This December, it will happen again: Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas.

  • The betting now is that a counsel will be named, and will hound Gore for years.

  • 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').

  • Her behavior was stupid and hurt a lot of people, but if the point here is to measure the size of her errors, they are barely perceptible next to those of the people who ruined her: a literary agent with profit and something akin to treason on her mind; a federal prosecutor who chose to hound and harass a citizen with overweening force and little justification; and journalists who cooperated by exposing every last detail of her private life.

  • Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions.


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