running dog

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for running dog
Noun
  • Many viewers will receive the service for free as part of their subscription to cable, satellite and most streaming services.
    Joe Reedy, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Per the previous reporting from Marchand, the service will allow subscribers to bypass cable or satellite providers to watch all ESPN programming, including live games, through ESPN’s app.
    Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 58-year-old Bergman is a company man, having joined back in 1996, and is regarded as sharp and skilled at overseeing a portfolio that includes Marvel, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and Lucasfilm.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
  • When asked by Robinson about the Heat's team-building intentions during the offseason, Adebayo was a company man, keeping word mum.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • This summer has already given ample evidence of how poorly Trump and his minions understand California.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 18 July 2025
  • Trump and his minions have gone so far as to limit the Associated Press’ access to the White House in a petulant tantrum because the AP, like the rest of the world, refuses to accept his silly renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
    John A. Ragosta, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • While the comparison of slave babies being taken from their mommas, and immigrant children being separated from their parents might seem a bit harsh to some, the pain is the same.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Although, of course, this was an inversion of the slave master–slave woman coupling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nina gets free just in time, only to find Saxton and Jim battling a ballet of bullets with Sal’s men — a firefight that gets Saxton’s blunt-force henchman Billy (Evan Jones) shot through the eye.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 July 2025
  • The wretched music alone is worth it, as is Victor Von Doom's henchman, who sounds like a little kid trying to impersonate Dracula.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • He and some Prodigy soldiers are sent to the Maginot crash site to look for survivors, but two of them are quickly picked off by a blood-sucking parasite.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Unbeknownst to them, that stomach issue was actually a parasite.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For dried or sticky grease, Marshall suggests switching to dish soap diluted in water and rubbing gently with a soft sponge or microfiber cloth.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The lesson is to let the film be like a sponge that attracts what happens in the world at that moment and captures it.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Blaming Christos for a substation outage, The Dama’s lackey gassed the lot of ’em and bashed in their heads.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 1 June 2025
  • Outside of one good scene between Clark and Lois, almost every frame is constantly packed with characters, whether this is the (admittedly very funny) Justice Gang (Nathan Fillion’s Green Lantern, Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Edi Gathegi’s scene-stealing Mister Terrific) or Lex and his lackeys.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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