How to Use bull terrier in a Sentence

bull terrier

noun
  • The boy ran after the bull terrier and tried to grab the dog.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Blanca is a 6-year-old pit-bull terrier who has called EBHS home for the past eight months.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Girlie, a homeless bull terrier found weeks ago in Long Island City, Queens.
    New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Of all the famed fashion pets, there might not be one more iconic than Neville Jacobs, Marc Jacobs’s bull terrier.
    Katherine Cusumano, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • For four years, the bull terrier sat in the Cleveland dugout with Indians players during games.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Even deWildt’s own bull terrier, Sonny, plumped up during the height of the Boston-area shutdowns.
    Kim Kavin, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Princess Anne has been spotted walking with her bull terriers at the Gatcombe Horse Trials.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2018
  • According to the Wichita Eagle, the dog was a 35-to-40-pound English bull terrier.
    Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 22 June 2018
  • For ten years, Ellroy and Knode owned a red-furred bull terrier named Margaret, after his favourite British prime minister.
    The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • At one moment, Wesley, a 52-pound bull terrier, was resting peacefully with his head in Ariel Sackett’s lap.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Moon is a bull terrier, and Dodman believes the animal has a dog version of autism spectrum disorder.
    Kathryn Bowers, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • Thin or well-muscled dogs like greyhounds, Weimaraners, pit bull and bull terriers often don’t have much body fat to insulate their muscles and other tissues.
    Karen Asp, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2017
  • An affable artist who mostly resisted commercial offers, Mr. Booth was once asked to draw his trademark bull terrier as a gift for an anonymous celebrity.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • No one familiar with George Booth’s cartoons can look at an English bull terrier and not wonder whether its equine muzzle, pointed ears, and claustrophobically arranged eyes weren’t inspired by his drawings rather than the other way around.
    Nathan Fitch, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2022
  • According to that research, the temperament of pit-bull terrier type dogs scored better than many other breeds’, including golden retrievers and border collies.
    Phil Ferolito, The Seattle Times, 6 May 2018
  • She was convicted of a criminal offense After an incident where her English bull terrier Dotty bit two children, Anne became the first senior member of the royal family to be convicted a criminal offense.
    Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 15 Aug. 2020

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