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Recent Examples of working dogThis is how many working dogs think in and out of their respected fields.—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025 The course is taught only three times a year with ten military working dog teams.—Escher Walcott, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024 State of play: Visitors can explore the Coast Guard Museum Northwest and see exhibits from the Navy League of the United States, Puget Sound Navy Museum and the U.S. Marine Corps, including artillery displays, military working dog demonstrations, pugil stick simulators and Humvee displays.—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 31 July 2024 The report — which addresses the working conditions of working dogs — somehow escaped our noticed until we were scooped by our friends at USA Facts, a data evangelism and dissemination outfit founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for working dog
Officers deployed a police dog and less-lethal tools to bring him into custody.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
His family reportedly owns 26 acres of woods, much of it undeveloped, according to CBS Boston.
Footage obtained by WPRI shows officers carrying large evidence bags out of the residence as police dogs scoured the woods nearby.
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David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico named the six wolf dogs after characters created by fantasy author Sarah J. Maas
Six wolfdogs are spending their holiday season enjoying a winter wonderland after being kept as pets.
Murphy barely generates a chuckle as a weary veteran intent on getting home for his anniversary (Eva Longoria, wasted as his wife) while Davidson’s horny puppy dog shtick wears thin after minute 10.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
His puppy dog demeanor was back, replacing the hangdog expression earlier.
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