Example sentences for: hounds

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

  • 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.

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

  • Every day you make decisions--probably including the decision to step outside your house and risk being torn apart by hounds as you pick up the morning paper (you could, after all, hire someone to bring the paper inside for you every day, just to be safe)--that implicitly value your own life at less than $46 million.

  • 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.


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