Example sentences for: watchdog

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

  • On the forthcoming Middle East summit at Wye Plantation outside Washington, Ha'aretz of Israel reported Sunday as its main story that Ariel Sharon, Israel's new hard-line foreign minister-designate, will act as a "watchdog" over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure he doesn't make too many concessions to the Palestinians.

  • This trust makes sense—despite the surveys in which people report distrust—on the assumption that the nation chooses to cooperate in the ascendancy of the government as the watchdog of equality and popular democracy.

  • And companies, says the paper, are not pleased, concerned that their activities will be exposed to everybody from stock traders, to terrorists, to stockholders' watchdog groups (just what are all those planes doing in the Hamptons anyway?)

  • Amy Harmon's story "Internet Sale of Nazi Books in Germany Assailed" relates that Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com are drawing the ire of an L.A.-based anti-Semitism watchdog group for shipping Mein Kampf to Germany, where the book is banned.

  • "These people [at JPL] could not manage their way out of a Glad bag," pronounces a nonprofit watchdog group.


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