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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