plural puppies
1
: a young domestic dog
specifically
: one less than a year old
2
: baby sense 4
a computer that is one fast puppy
Examples of puppy in a Sentence
Our dog just had four puppies.
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For her other gifts this year, Kim gave each of her four children — North West, 11, Saint West, 11, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6 — their own Pomeranian puppies.
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Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
In another session at the Forum, 93-year-old Almut Schultz laughed with delight while viewing a virtual classical music performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and later seemed to want to play with a puppy frolicking around in her VR headset.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2025
Noel, along with her puppies are currently in a foster home and under the Woodward Center veterinary team care and will be available for adoption in mid-February.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
Though Heitor is claimed to be no more harmful than a puppy, there are some moments of fright for Griff who is a little uneasy acting opposite him and at one point panics and tosses him overboard, resulting in Heitor’s gruesome demise.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2025
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Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
In another session at the Forum, 93-year-old Almut Schultz laughed with delight while viewing a virtual classical music performance at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and later seemed to want to play with a puppy frolicking around in her VR headset.
—Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2025
Noel, along with her puppies are currently in a foster home and under the Woodward Center veterinary team care and will be available for adoption in mid-February.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
Though Heitor is claimed to be no more harmful than a puppy, there are some moments of fright for Griff who is a little uneasy acting opposite him and at one point panics and tosses him overboard, resulting in Heitor’s gruesome demise.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for puppy
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“Puppy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppy. Accessed 2 Jan. 2026.
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puppy
noun
pup·py
ˈpəp-ē 
plural puppies
: a young domestic dog
especially
: one less than a year old
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