How to Use hangdog in a Sentence

hangdog

1 of 2 adjective

• He came home with a hangdog expression on his face.
• Strong, who is now forty-two, has the hangdog face of someone who wasn’t destined for stardom.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
• Jamie Spears, who is sixty-eight, has graying hair and a hangdog demeanor.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• But Macy was born to play this sort of hangdog failure who hasn’t stopped betting on himself.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
• With his hangdog mien and pained smile, Strong excels most in the quiet moments of Kendall's inner turmoil.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Jay Duplass brings his best shambling hangdog moves to the role of Ji-Yoon’s crush, Bill, a recent widower in the heavy-drinking-and-screwing-up-at-work phase of grief.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
• And for all the understandable satisfaction the Atlanta Hawks and their fans have taken in this loud and stunningly robust season, the hangdog Italian was having little of it.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 July 2021
• David has his advantages, among them the physique of a Calvin Klein model, a face that is strikingly reminiscent of Roger Federer’s, and the appealingly brooding air of a hangdog puppy.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Amid this oppressive gloom, Stone’s sallow, hangdog visage suggests someone wasting away before our very eyes.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
• Rhys’s Mason—not yet an attorney—slumped his way through different levels of professional and personal dejection, with egg on his tie and a hangdog expression.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• He might get dinged by fans for his occasionally hangdog body language — more on that later — but his personality is sneaky hilarious.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Dupontel, with his frazzled hair and hangdog middle-management visage, is terrific as the melancholy singleton whose commonality with Suze’s son is a stretch but serves to further connect the two potential lovebirds.
  — Mark Keizer, Variety, 24 Dec. 2021
• Kidman is rivaled occasionally by the craggy yet sympathetically hangdog performance from Grant as the prime suspect.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• He came home with a hangdog expression on his face.
• Strong, who is now forty-two, has the hangdog face of someone who wasn’t destined for stardom.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
• Jamie Spears, who is sixty-eight, has graying hair and a hangdog demeanor.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• But Macy was born to play this sort of hangdog failure who hasn’t stopped betting on himself.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
• With his hangdog mien and pained smile, Strong excels most in the quiet moments of Kendall's inner turmoil.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Jay Duplass brings his best shambling hangdog moves to the role of Ji-Yoon’s crush, Bill, a recent widower in the heavy-drinking-and-screwing-up-at-work phase of grief.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
• And for all the understandable satisfaction the Atlanta Hawks and their fans have taken in this loud and stunningly robust season, the hangdog Italian was having little of it.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 July 2021
• David has his advantages, among them the physique of a Calvin Klein model, a face that is strikingly reminiscent of Roger Federer’s, and the appealingly brooding air of a hangdog puppy.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• Amid this oppressive gloom, Stone’s sallow, hangdog visage suggests someone wasting away before our very eyes.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
• Rhys’s Mason—not yet an attorney—slumped his way through different levels of professional and personal dejection, with egg on his tie and a hangdog expression.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 June 2020
• He might get dinged by fans for his occasionally hangdog body language — more on that later — but his personality is sneaky hilarious.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Dupontel, with his frazzled hair and hangdog middle-management visage, is terrific as the melancholy singleton whose commonality with Suze’s son is a stretch but serves to further connect the two potential lovebirds.
  — Mark Keizer, Variety, 24 Dec. 2021
• Kidman is rivaled occasionally by the craggy yet sympathetically hangdog performance from Grant as the prime suspect.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020

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hangdog

2 of 2 noun

• Mattfeld’s head dipped into a slight hangdog bow, and her eyes went dead.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Wolff is heartbreaking as the hangdog and haunted young man.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• Sam Lloyd, best known for his portrayal of hangdog lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs, has died.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 May 2020
• Kendall spends the first five episodes being more low-energy than a post-divorce Ross Geller, as hangdog as Droopy.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2019
• Dirk, a Corgi mix with a hangdog look, is older and four times the size of Penny, a tiny, social Chihuahua-pug hybrid.
  — Mary Helen Berg, USA TODAY, 13 May 2017
• But who is the balding man with the hangdog expression, who now appears to be the most influential North Korean outside the Kim clan?
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 28 May 2018
• Nobody knew, least of all Florentino Perez, whose baggy face was more hangdog than ever on Thursday.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 31 May 2018
• Heads up, no hangdog Center Dwight Howard correctly observed the Hornets were hanging their heads when things got tough lately.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 19 Dec. 2017
• David (Colin Farrell), who has a hangdog expression and an actual dog at his side, is sent to the hotel soon after his divorce.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 12 May 2016
• Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe has one of the great hangdog faces in cinema today.
  — Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2017
• With his hangdog, morose visage and faced etched with crevices, Stanton was known for playing characters of innate sadness or darkness.
  — Chris Malone, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
• Lacy’s vocals have the sort of hangdog ruefulness familiar to anyone who has failed to seize an opportunity, or has self-sabotaged their way out of something great.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• Owen Teague, so perfectly brooding in Bloodline, is adorably hangdog as Julian, a 19-year-old who meets Eve in a creative writing class and immediately develops a crush.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Crudup shifts from giving a rote performance to channeling the kind of hangdog empathy that’s powered some of his recent great performances (such as in 20th Century Women and Jackie).
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Barry’s hangdog, sad-eyed charm recalls one of Sandler’s first stabs at more dramatic, or at least more emotional, material: 1999’s Big Daddy.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• Futura repeated her cue, his expression hangdog but game.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• His normally hangdog expression would suddenly disappear behind a huge toothy grin.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful, weary appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble sensitivity.
  — Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2022
• Hauser taps into Jewell’s tendency toward hangdog dejection beautifully, giving a performance miles away from the cartoonish (but cute) work he’s done onscreen until now.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
• His combustibility, his pugnaciousness, his scorching sarcasm, his intelligence, and his toughness all played off against his tortured hangdog eyes, his mild speech impediment in the early films, his vincibility.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
• In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a quintessential character actor, a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble gravitas.
  — Jake Coyle, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
• Mattfeld’s head dipped into a slight hangdog bow, and her eyes went dead.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• Wolff is heartbreaking as the hangdog and haunted young man.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2022
• Sam Lloyd, best known for his portrayal of hangdog lawyer Ted Buckland on Scrubs, has died.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 May 2020
• Kendall spends the first five episodes being more low-energy than a post-divorce Ross Geller, as hangdog as Droopy.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2019
• Dirk, a Corgi mix with a hangdog look, is older and four times the size of Penny, a tiny, social Chihuahua-pug hybrid.
  — Mary Helen Berg, USA TODAY, 13 May 2017
• But who is the balding man with the hangdog expression, who now appears to be the most influential North Korean outside the Kim clan?
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 28 May 2018
• Nobody knew, least of all Florentino Perez, whose baggy face was more hangdog than ever on Thursday.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 31 May 2018
• Heads up, no hangdog Center Dwight Howard correctly observed the Hornets were hanging their heads when things got tough lately.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 19 Dec. 2017
• David (Colin Farrell), who has a hangdog expression and an actual dog at his side, is sent to the hotel soon after his divorce.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 12 May 2016

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