Example sentences for: watchdog

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

  • Imagine how Slate and others would slice me up if you found out I was running a magazine about journalism--one that some call a "watchdog"--and was getting paid writing assignments from one of the organizations I was supposed to be watching and, of course, not disclosing it on the pages of the magazine whenever the magazine writes about that organization.

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

  • The LAT senses a Watergate-like trail of money here, quoting Charles Lewis of the Washington-based watchdog group, the Center for Public Integrity, saying, "Wire transfers of the kind described are Exhibit A of criminality."

  • 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.

  • Australia has had its watchdog Standing Committee on Spoken English.


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