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Recent Examples of puppyThis is a sick puppy who will do…anything.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026 Albers said that if a dog wanders too close to a coyote den during puppy season and a territorial adult coyote is at home, the encounter may not end well for the house pet.—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 17 Feb. 2026 The acting mandate was evidently to go puppy.—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026 Over the past ten years, celebrities have gone from treating profiles as a necessary part of the job — grin and bear it, hold a puppy, say the least offensive things possible — to giving you absolutely nothing.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for puppy
Unlikely Meathead, a whelp who spoke from a position of occasionally whiny, frequently wet-behind-the-ears insulation from life’s realities, Reiner had gray in his beard and a lengthy track record of using his podium for good.