Example sentences for: watchdogs

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

  • Soon after the working group convened, the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Inc. and two government-ethics watchdogs filed suit, arguing that the closed meetings violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 . FACA, designed to check the power and proliferation of presidential commissions, requires that the meetings of working groups appointed by the executive branch be open to the public.

  • Technology watchdogs call the egg auction another chapter in the cultural slide marked by Jennycam (a Web site featuring live video of a young woman undressing and doing other normal activities in her apartment), the promised Webcast of a man and woman losing their virginity together (which turned out to be a hoax), and a human kidney auction that was conducted and aborted on eBay last month.

  • It's not that the rich kids don't party as determinedly as the poor ones, it's that the dorms are prowled by sadistic faculty watchdogs such as Mr. Funderburk (Tim Crowe), as well as by students happy to rat out their peers if it means getting into an Ivy League school.

  • And the mass media, remarkably free to report on shortcomings in election administration, have been reasonably effective in their role as watchdogs.

  • Campaign-finance watchdogs' spin: It's an attempt to curb DeLay's fearsome power and ruthlessness.


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