How to Use lapdog in a Sentence

lapdog

noun

• If your ideal partner in crime is a tiny lapdog, a Shorkie might be a great fit.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 24 July 2022
• Duffy jersey Sadie’s been known to wear while still acting like a lapdog?
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
• Vladimir Putin must feel like a lapdog who is suddenly banished from the couch to the basement.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Inside the houses are palmetto bugs the size of lapdogs.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• That so many of our most powerful watchdogs have turned into lapdogs.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Even faithful lapdog Lindsey Graham thought the Dingell attack was a bridge too far.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2019
• Regardless, the core problem here is that the FHFA is supposed to be the housing finance industry’s watchdog, not its lapdog.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Then a lapdog belonging to the doctor’s mother (Kathleen Chalfant) dies.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
• Daily outdoor fun is a way of life for people with retrievers, terriers, spaniels, herding dogs and even plenty of dogs on the small side, who don’t seem to know they are considered part of the lapdog brigade.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 11 July 2018
• Those quests are usually undertaken in pursuit of true love and require some kind of face-off with death, even when death is accompanied by a cute black lapdog.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• Researchers believe the lapdog-size animal may have been venomous because of a distinctive groove along the upper jaw, similar to a duct that transports venom from gland to tooth in some snakes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2015
• Putin became Lukashenko’s patron—or, put another way, Lukashenko transformed into Putin’s lapdog.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022
• A few weeks ago, President Trump and his Republican lapdogs passed a bill that gives hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to our wealthiest corporations.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
• Over the course of three seasons, Kendall has served as both a lapdog and direct adversary of Logan and displays his emotional woundedness through his struggles with various addictions.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
• And then there's the bafflement by so many as to why the Republican leadership has been scared Shih Tzu into lapdog mode as to its responsibility to be some sort of a check on a national executive that's gone to the zoo.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 May 2017
• No bigger than a lapdog, these marsupials are famous for their ferocity and powerful jaws, which can reduce large carcasses to smithereens in minutes.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2020
• Archie spends a majority of the season as Hiram's lapdog, helping him out with various tasks, even aggressively scaring off two other mob bosses who attempt to take out Hiram.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 8 Oct. 2018
• Somebody was changing a baby’s diaper, while another passenger tried to keep a lapdog under control.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
• Good government is about being transparent, and this is the latest instance of those in charge of our children’s safety making no pretense about being slobbering lapdogs for the National Rifle Association.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2018

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024