Example sentences for: hounds

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

  • Who would have thought that a word like quirt , which I had always associated with hounds and stirrup cups, came from the Spanish for `rope,' or `string,' cuerda . The meagre sources I have at home bear out that origin, however.

  • In a 20ish man who never frequented a club in Pall Mall, drank no brandy, squired no acres, rode to no hounds?

  • The aristocratic hounds grab our attention, and the ad reaches for those who are in charge--of their world, their careers, their money, and their vizslas--the kind of men who are in control of their drinking.

  • Jíbaros (country farmers) carry machetes to the fields, accompanied by their faithful hounds.

  • In the wee, wee hours it’s populated by a sometimes motley mix of early-morning newspaper sellers, streetsweepers, and bar hounds stumbling back to their apartments and hotels.


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