1
2
: a mean or despicable person
3
: dogfish
4
: a person who pursues like a hound
especially
: one who avidly seeks or collects something
autograph hounds
hounded; hounding; hounds
1
: to pursue with or as if with hounds
2
: to drive or affect by persistent harassing
hounder
noun
Synonyms
Examples of hound in a Sentence
Noun
in the yard an old hound greeted us with a single bark
a camera hound even before the baby arrived, he's now become obsessive
Verb
He is being hounded by the press.
They hounded me with questions.
They hounded me for my autograph.
hound a politician out of office
Recent Examples on the Web
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
On the day of the verdict, autograph hounds, T-shirt vendors, street preachers and paparazzi engulfed the courthouse steps.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The former isn’t exclusively a Christmas tradition, but a celebration of the town’s Scottish merchant founders that features a procession of kilt wearers with colorful tartans, pipe and drum bands, and terriers and hounds.
—Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
Outside the museum, Koons’ giant hound of marigolds and begonias punctuates her point perfectly.
—Christian House, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
Lions bay up in high places, and the hounds follow.
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
From the many eclipse hounds’ images, the SunSketcher team can create a kind of conglomerate of sun images taken from different angles by participants in areas from Texas to Maine at slightly different times.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The loved one remembered is Elle, a 60-pound fox hound/beagle mix.
—Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
Voters felt hosed by the Republican publicity hound, and maybe the Dems were more motivated to vote.
—Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
After the news broke, he was hounded with questions by festivalgoers.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
Royal women, in particular, have been routinely hounded about medical matters to an unreasonable degree.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
Debt collectors would hound her mother to pay the medical bill even while Taylor was in the hospital.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
The Oakland Tech two guard was hounded and pounded by Wildcat defenders on every drive, but that was standard procedure in a playoff game.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
Nearly four years ago, the staff at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix was hounded by former President Donald Trump's supporters, who pushed his false claims that votes in his favor were not counted.
—Averi Harper, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
Harry, 39, the younger son of King Charles III, has broken ranks with royal family tradition in his willingness to go to court to challenge the government and take on tabloids in his effort to hold publishers accountable for hounding him throughout his life.
—Brian Melley, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
Sophomore Mara Braun, the team’s leading scorer at 18.9 points per game, tied a season low with nine points and missed 10 of 13 shots as Badgers sophomore Sania Copeland spent most of the night hounding her.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
Noun
Gossip hounds suspected the other man was Simpson —and that their union produced Khloe, who does bear a striking resemblance to him.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
On the day of the verdict, autograph hounds, T-shirt vendors, street preachers and paparazzi engulfed the courthouse steps.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The former isn’t exclusively a Christmas tradition, but a celebration of the town’s Scottish merchant founders that features a procession of kilt wearers with colorful tartans, pipe and drum bands, and terriers and hounds.
—Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
Outside the museum, Koons’ giant hound of marigolds and begonias punctuates her point perfectly.
—Christian House, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
Lions bay up in high places, and the hounds follow.
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
From the many eclipse hounds’ images, the SunSketcher team can create a kind of conglomerate of sun images taken from different angles by participants in areas from Texas to Maine at slightly different times.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The loved one remembered is Elle, a 60-pound fox hound/beagle mix.
—Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
Voters felt hosed by the Republican publicity hound, and maybe the Dems were more motivated to vote.
—Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
Verb
Health care providers say customers will be hounded less as companies consolidate their notification systems.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
After the news broke, he was hounded with questions by festivalgoers.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
Royal women, in particular, have been routinely hounded about medical matters to an unreasonable degree.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
Debt collectors would hound her mother to pay the medical bill even while Taylor was in the hospital.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
The Oakland Tech two guard was hounded and pounded by Wildcat defenders on every drive, but that was standard procedure in a playoff game.
—Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
Nearly four years ago, the staff at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix was hounded by former President Donald Trump's supporters, who pushed his false claims that votes in his favor were not counted.
—Averi Harper, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
Harry, 39, the younger son of King Charles III, has broken ranks with royal family tradition in his willingness to go to court to challenge the government and take on tabloids in his effort to hold publishers accountable for hounding him throughout his life.
—Brian Melley, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
Sophomore Mara Braun, the team’s leading scorer at 18.9 points per game, tied a season low with nine points and missed 10 of 13 shots as Badgers sophomore Sania Copeland spent most of the night hounding her.
—Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
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hound
1 of 2 noun2
: a dog of any of various hunting breeds having large drooping ears and a deep voice and following their prey by scent or sight
hound
2 of 2 verb
: to pursue with or as if with hounds
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