How to Use guard dog in a Sentence

guard dog

noun

• The intruder might have been deterred by the couple’s two dogs — except that neither canine acted like a traditional guard dog.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
• With a guard dog nearby, the soldiers then pushed the detainee against a wall before the whole group surrounded themselves with shields presumably to block the view of security cameras.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2025
• Throughout the clip, Olivia rarely misses a step and even gets the Focker guard dog approval, winning Jack’s respect and Henry’s envy.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026
• For Frank, Dennis, and Charlie, that meant buying an old police car while unsuccessfully searching for a junkyard guard dog.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
• Another, from 2009, is dominated by the profile of what appears to be a guard dog gripping a black hunk of something unidentifiable.
  — Ben Davis, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026