Example sentences for: watchdog

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

  • According to one campaign-finance watchdog organization, the 1996 presidential contest will cost $800 million, nearly three times as much as the 1992 race.

  • 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.

  • 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?)

  • 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.

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


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