How to Use puppy in a Sentence

puppy

noun
  • Our dog just had four puppies.
  • The puppy, though, was awake by 7:30 a.m. and antsy for a walk.
    Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Drew said the puppies were in bad shape, and one was on the brink of death.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
  • Then the puppy chewed the wood filler, so some of it is now gray.
    Washington Post, 10 May 2021
  • Brown, the man who had dug a trench, stroked a small puppy.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Six 8-week old puppies inside the shed died in the fire.
    Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The store priced each of the bulldog puppies at $4,299 each.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The clip ends with the mom dog cuddling with her 11 new puppies.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The puppies were too small to climb out of the tote, which was not covered with a lid.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
  • And the fact that that puppy was Chris Evans was even funnier.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The puppy, like me, is on her first outing in search of jaguars.
    Emiliano Ruprah, Wired, 31 July 2021
  • Parsad's new husky puppy, Nina, who was in the car with the teenagers, was found dead in the front seat.
    Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2023
  • The first half of the game will be played by the kittens of each squad, and the second half will be played by the puppies.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The stern glare that made their puppy have accidents in the house.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And our one-year-old puppy has never spent a full day in the crate.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • The puppies are split into two teams: Team Fluff and Team Ruff.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The handling is pure BMW, which is to say more fun than Labrador puppies.
    William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Our friend who trains dogs told us to take our puppy to places like Lowe’s, etc.
    Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • About a year ago, my boyfriend and I adopted a puppy named Romy.
    Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2021
  • This was the first reunion for the dogs since they were taken home as puppies.
    Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Yeah, that there’s a guy in a puppy suit walking around set.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The working-class kid followed the rich girl around like a puppy.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But nobody else was around, and puppies were stuck in there.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The friend confirmed that the puppy was not a victim of a dog attack.
    al, 19 May 2021
  • Dogs have short, round faces as puppies but long, snouty faces as adults.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The noise is awfully close to my Black Lab puppy and me.
    The Indianapolis Star, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Archie is a medium-sized 30lb puppy that is full of life!
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 28 July 2024
  • The officer found a puppy dead in a crate in what the police said was the bedroom of the woman later arrested.
    Ethan Wolin july 25, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2025
  • The new red wolves include one adolescent female named Hope and three male puppies named Blaze, Cinder and Ash.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025

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