Examples of dogtrot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun From there, a guide will lead guests to the Yancey dogtrot home, where Southern secession leader William Lowndes Yancey – the man Abraham Lincoln held responsible for the Civil War – lived and died. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021 The first march of ten hours, myself in the lead with the compass, sometimes on a dogtrot, the sledges following in Indian file with drivers running beside or behind, placed us thirty miles to the good. — Robert E. (robert Edwin) Peary, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 The family built two dogtrot cabins that are encapsulated within the Spring Run House. — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018 With its boxy geometry and dogtrot porch — three rooms on one side of the breezeway and two on the other — the folk-style house looks like a collaboration between Donald Judd and Annie Oakley. — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018 The Biggses lived in a big old rambly house with rooms on both sides of a long dogtrot hallway and a deep, shady porch on the front. — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2016 Portions of the main home (originally constructed with hardwood cedar logs as a two-room dogtrot) date back to the Civil War. — Elizabeth Finkelstein, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2017 The Biggses lived in a big old rambly house with rooms on both sides of a long dogtrot hallway and a deep, shady porch on the front. — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 11 July 2017 A dogtrot-style structure with two sections separated by a large, central breezeway, it was inspired by 19th-century Texas pioneer cabin design. — Mike Powell, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017 See More

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