How to Use spaniel in a Sentence

spaniel

noun

• My friend has the same problem with her old and blind spaniel.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2022
• English springer spaniel Springer spaniels are people dogs through and through.
  — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• Wright cooed to a spaniel mix that had been found at the bottom of a well a few weeks earlier.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
• Friedman stopped by with his two dogs, a Shih Tzu and a Shih Tzu spaniel.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Swinton’s springer spaniel Rosie (one of her four) was an inspiration.
  — Jake Coyle, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
• My grandmother had outlived all of her siblings, her husband, and a series of spaniels.
  — Deborah Milstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• The canine actor playing King Charles’ beloved spaniel is yet to be announced.
  — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• Brittanies—no longer known as Brittany spaniels—make a great choice for a compact pointing dog.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 23 Mar. 2020
• His first memory of them was as a young boy racing a cocker spaniel named Denny to a bakery truck.
  — Monica Luhar, NBC News, 9 May 2017
• Some familiar breeds that once held the top spot, such as collies and cocker spaniels, aren’t in the top 10 today.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
• The smallish, brown-and-white, spaniel-style dogs can be seen in some Dutch Old Master paintings.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
• The collection, which includes a cavalier spaniel and dachshund, is a play on dogs in military garb.
  — Lia Picard, House Beautiful, 2 Apr. 2021
• Even more troubling, the doctor’s dog, a Tibetan spaniel named Bo, had been left unattended in the home.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Carlson has spoken of his own brush with demonic forces, who left him bloodied and scratched in the night, while his wife and their four spaniels slept undisturbed.
  — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• There are no clumber spaniels or Australian shepherds in this year’s draft pool, but Ranger is an intriguing pick.
  — Tim Moynihan, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2016
• While her spaniel whines pitifully for its missing master, her own complex feelings are still working their way to the surface.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Nick’s dog, an English Springer spaniel named Fiadh, remained on board Topel’s boat.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
• Below a clouded sky in the middle of Illinois prairie, a handsome brown spaniel dashed ahead through brambles and bobbed back up with a catch.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
• But the spaniels in the paintings are almost always the cinnamon-and-white variety known as a Blenheim spaniel.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• Cavalier spaniels, terriers, and basenjis are ideal breeds for small apartments.
  — The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
• Together, the authorities worked to remove the spaniels from the truck, but more arrived on the scene shortly after.
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
• The clients’ spaniel, Jake, lays claim to the best spot in the former hayloft, which overlooks sweeping views of the surrounding countryside.
  — Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 22 Sep. 2021
• Dogs like the German wire-haired pointer are great at hunting for quarry, while spaniels are better at flushing birds and waterfowl.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
• The construction turned the Delavans’ cocker spaniels, Mable and Della, cranky.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 1 June 2017
• Sniffer dogs—Alsatians and Irish spaniels—are trained to root out ammunition, rhino horn, and weapons stashed in trucks and cars.
  — Helena Pozniak, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
• Dinner was just getting started when the family dog, a cocker spaniel named Sandy, leaped from a sitting start on the kitchen floor into the lima beans.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 13 Jan. 2017
• Before the match, Princess Charlotte petted Stella, a Springer spaniel police dog.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• The spaniel, adorned with a glittering crown, was filmed comfortably seated at the table, clearly part of the community and cherished by all.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• And in New Hampshire, schoolchildren gather at the grave of the first American cocker spaniel.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2016
• Penny, Monroe says, was a Brittany spaniel that cost him $75 in his early years serving a church in Nyssa.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018