How to Use basset hound in a Sentence

basset hound

noun
  • Turnspits were short and stocky, with the head of a pit bull and the body of a basset hound.
    Andrew Amelinckx, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Or, find him at The Dugout with his wife and basset hound on the weekend.
    Joe Tamborello, Indianapolis Star, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Taking the stairs can be hard on a basset hound’s spine.
    OregonLive.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Dave pauses for a long look, then turns to me with the eyes of an orphaned basset hound.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2018
  • Instead, my dad came home with a basset hound named Gertrude.
    WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Her dog, Kimba, a 9½-year-old poodle-basset hound, chases down the balls, too.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The classic Neapolitan pizza is as soft and floppy as a basset hound’s ears.
    Francesco Lastrucci, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The exuberant basset hound that spent most of his life so far in New York is now an island boy.
    Joe Sills, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There will be a special battle of the breeds featuring basset hounds, corgis and wieners.
    Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Dachshunds, basset hounds and countless other lovable dog breeds will run through the grass at Memorial Park, all with the same goal — to get adopted.
    Emily Bloch, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • A few years ago, my friend Leslie Wallace -- who mainly rescues basset hounds -- called to tell me about a donkey in desperate need of a home.
    Sheila Stroup, NOLA.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Transmission takes its time, as playful as a 14-year-old basset hound, those optional BBS wheels cost what?
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Nov. 2020
  • So, when the couple came home one night in 2016 to find their basset hound puppy amid a mass of Minnie’s interior fluff, Leslie was devastated.
    Helen Bond, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Also, a cat with an attitude has a mysterious wound and Dr. Petra performs life-saving surgery on a basset hound hit by a car.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • When their inventory of 300-plus sold out (and after fans depleted their husky, basset hound and black poodle models), the company re-upped their stock . . .
    Greg Bishop and Ben Baskin, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Two young businessmen sat in an otherwise empty room talking about high rents while some regulars sat at tables by the bar with their dozing basset hound.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Boynton then retrieved from a nearby armchair one of her sister’s old stuffed toys, a plush incarnation of J. J. Morgan, a television-celebrity basset hound from the early 1950s.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Meanwhile, my daughter and I welcomed a living, breathing and barking new family member: Ollie, a 5-month-old black-and-white shelter dog who's part basset hound and part border collie.
    Debra Hale-Shelton, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Fasuna is one of the 15 staff members participating in the training and certification process with her basset hound, Mollie.
    Kaitlin Mikrut, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The gigantic bivalved arthropod Balhuticaris voltae—distantly similar to today’s crustaceans—has a unique outer shell-body, or carapace, that drapes over its front like the floppy ears of a basset hound.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Friends and family described her as an upbeat, happy, animal-loving spirit who owned a basset hound and enjoyed country music.
    Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Those murderers were almost exclusively members of the wealthy privileged class, in sharp contrast to Columbo, who drove a battered Peugeot 403 and occasionally brought his basset hound, Dog, to crime scenes.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Steven Doppelt, a marketing executive at a cable news station, was devastated when Tyrone, his ailing basset hound died late last year.
    Judith Newman, New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • The Pioneer Woman's previous basset hound, Charlie, passed away last January.
    Madison Alcedo, Country Living, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The film’s Oscar-winning makeup puts puffy cheeks on Chastain’s long face, which gives her the look of a mascaraed basset hound, weirdly accentuated by ’80s fashions — exercise togs, glittery headbands, big-shouldered Dynasty dresses, and fur coats.
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022

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