Example sentences for: watchdogs

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

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

  • 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.

  • But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs.

  • 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.

  • The NYT off-lead reports that some medical ethicists and consumer watchdogs are faulting former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop with blending public service and commercial interests on his company's Web site, DrKoop.com.


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