How to Use dog in a Sentence

dog

1 of 3 noun

• That was a dog of a movie.
• That dog barks all day long.
• Her latest book turned out to be a real dog.
• Then the dogs need to be walked.
  — Eric Ducker, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
• The dog brand will close this month.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
• The dogs took up the scent at once.
  — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
• This left just the head of the dog.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• Go slow and don't stress your dog out.
  — Ayrika L Whitney, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
• Walk the dog at the end of the night.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Ain’t the size of the dog in the fight.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
• At least no dogs were harmed along the way.
  — Brad Japhe, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2025
• The hair and the smell of the dog will linger.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2026
• What is the name of Gil’s pet dog?
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 9 Apr. 2026
• The crate should be a place that your dog likes to be in.
  — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
• For a week, no one knew if the dog was dead or alive.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2026
• The dogs had been stolen by thieves tied to the dog meat trade.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
• Dogs have been known to freak out and refuse to walk across it.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• All of the dogs can be adopted.
  — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Feb. 2026
• When dogs and cats get scared by the sounds, many tend to bolt.
  — Caroline Judelson, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• In tow was his trio of rescue dogs.
  — Steve Garbarino, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
• One of their big fears now is that she’ll be bit by a dog.
  — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
• Then the dogs were coming my way.
  — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
• This is not the laser your cat or dog will chase on the ground.
  — Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2020
• Dogs have to be dogs, after all.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• Who leashes their dog out in the woods?
  — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
• Some dogs never seem to go out of style.
  — Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
• In a lot of films, the dog doesn't make it out of act one.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
• How to adopt or foster the dogs?
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• Picked up stuffing from the dog toys.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
• Her dog enjoyed my spot on the bed.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025

dog

2 of 3 adjective

• And this isn't even an anti-dog rant!
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
• In multi-dog households, each dog should have its own bed to prevent conflict.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
• This marks one of the lowest prices of the year for the fence system, which is designed for multi-dog households.
  — Trisha Easto, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• However, non-dog companions must remain in a carrier at all times for their safety.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
• Meanwhile, critics in the anti-dog camp, some of whom seemed to object to the very concept of urban dogs, argued the poop proposals did not go nearly far enough.
  — Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
• This invisible fence system is designed for multi-dog households and helps reinforce boundaries.
  — Trisha Easto, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• The team then collected saliva microbiome samples from 247 non-dog owning and 96 dog-owning adolescents.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025

dog

3 of 3 verb

• He dogged her every move.
• Creditors dogged him until he finally paid his bills.
• He's been raw-dogging it the whole time.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• That now is the question that will dog Shiffrin.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
• The baby dogs will then be forced to play soccer to the death.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
• The towels reek like the stray dogs her husband brings home.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
• Whether the issue will dog him this campaign isn’t yet known.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2021
• De Blasio has been dogged by the case from all sides in the past five years.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
• Bundy’s been dogged by a nasty habit of giving up home runs the past two seasons.
  — Tom Withers, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2019
• Searchers found the body of the man and dog about 11 hours later, rangers said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• He was dogged enough to play seven years in the minors, then a decade in the big leagues.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
• But many of the warnings about Mamdani proved dogged.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
• Why should dog and cat lovers have all the fun during Halloween?
  — Erika Hardison, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• Safety concerns have dogged Uber since its launch eight years ago.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Knowledge is the fruiting body of light whose shadows dog us.
  — Donna Kane, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
• But he has been dogged by frequent injuries this season.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
• Dander, which are dead skin flakes, become attached to dog fur.
  — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 2 July 2026
• Still, Scales is dogged in her insistence that the food bank will find a way.
  — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2020
• Dogs must be at least three months old, and dogs older than 12 months must be spayed or neutered.
  — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
• No bins or baskets, just raw-dogging it up there (for lack of a better phrase).
  — Tessa Petak, InStyle, 30 May 2026
• Paxton has been dogged by ethics scandals throughout his three terms as the state’s top lawyer.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
• Only one team in this game is the big underdog dogged by doubts at every turn.
  — Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
• Fifth Harmony has been dogged by breakup rumors for a year now.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 18 Mar. 2016
• One of the few criticisms that dog Ivey are questions of her health.
  — Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• As a teen-ager, Andrew was dogged by a feeling of unease.
  — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• My in-laws take frequent vacations and ask my husband to dog-sit.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• He was dogged by the Watergate scandal at the time.
  — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
• The singer was dogged in his pursuit of the anthem assignment.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
• The ensuing scandal dogged her campaign and may have doomed it.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
• These services grew over time, from free meal and medicine delivery to dog walking.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022