How to Use dog-eat-dog in a Sentence

dog-eat-dog

adjective

• Rhyme schemes become secondary to dog-eat-dog dogma.
  — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
• Halton described himself as an explosive play-maker who can be a dog in a dog-eat-dog world.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
• Joy radiates in the room, and a dog-eat-dog environment where people cut each other off is replaced by open collaboration.
  — Barry Levitt, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
• But social mobility in this dog-eat-dog environment comes at a high price, one the benevolent Rastignac is initially unwilling to pay.
  — Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
• Soon enough, Karl’s seemingly foolproof blackmail scheme devolves into a merciless, dog-eat-dog fight for survival, and the two men are locked in a cutthroat collision course, their fates now inextricably linked.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
• People sometimes forget that World War II was a dog-eat-dog struggle for resources – oil and uranium but also dozens of other materials, everything from rubber to copper.
  — Thomas Robertson, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026