How to Use spaniel in a Sentence

spaniel

noun
  • My friend has the same problem with her old and blind spaniel.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Friedman stopped by with his two dogs, a Shih Tzu and a Shih Tzu spaniel.
    Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The smallish, brown-and-white, spaniel-style dogs can be seen in some Dutch Old Master paintings.
    CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Even more troubling, the doctor’s dog, a Tibetan spaniel named Bo, had been left unattended in the home.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Some familiar breeds that once held the top spot, such as collies and cocker spaniels, aren’t in the top 10 today.
    Jennifer Peltz, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2017
  • The canine actor playing King Charles’ beloved spaniel is yet to be announced.
    Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • In August 2016, the couple bought a house in West Roxbury for themselves and Wesley, their spaniel mix.
    Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The clients’ spaniel, Jake, lays claim to the best spot in the former hayloft, which overlooks sweeping views of the surrounding countryside.
    Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The floors throughout, of reclaimed antique oak, can stand up to Amber and Chloe, the couple’s Brittany spaniels.
    Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2023
  • But the spaniels in the paintings are almost always the cinnamon-and-white variety known as a Blenheim spaniel.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The construction turned the Delavans’ cocker spaniels, Mable and Della, cranky.
    Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 1 June 2017
  • Below a clouded sky in the middle of Illinois prairie, a handsome brown spaniel dashed ahead through brambles and bobbed back up with a catch.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • His first memory of them was as a young boy racing a cocker spaniel named Denny to a bakery truck.
    Monica Luhar, NBC News, 9 May 2017
  • Brittanies—no longer known as Brittany spaniels—make a great choice for a compact pointing dog.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 23 Mar. 2020
  • And in New Hampshire, schoolchildren gather at the grave of the first American cocker spaniel.
    National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2016
  • Swinton’s springer spaniel Rosie (one of her four) was an inspiration.
    Jake Coyle, The Seattle Times, 23 June 2017
  • Big dogs, small dogs, poodles, schnauzers, cocker spaniels, collies . .
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 Apr. 2017
  • There are no clumber spaniels or Australian shepherds in this year’s draft pool, but Ranger is an intriguing pick.
    Tim Moynihan, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2016
  • My grandmother had outlived all of her siblings, her husband, and a series of spaniels.
    Deborah Milstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Her answer: fostering Benny, a spaniel mix who’d just been pummeled by a car.
    Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Penny, Monroe says, was a Brittany spaniel that cost him $75 in his early years serving a church in Nyssa.
    Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Before the match, Princess Charlotte petted Stella, a Springer spaniel police dog.
    Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Sniffer dogs—Alsatians and Irish spaniels—are trained to root out ammunition, rhino horn, and weapons stashed in trucks and cars.
    Helena Pozniak, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Dinner was just getting started when the family dog, a cocker spaniel named Sandy, leaped from a sitting start on the kitchen floor into the lima beans.
    Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The collection, which includes a cavalier spaniel and dachshund, is a play on dogs in military garb.
    Lia Picard, House Beautiful, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Or did our 9-year-old spaniel mix just feel forgotten as all the humans were busying themselves with the wedding of Arya’s owners — Laura Shorey and our son Max.
    Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Raccoon dogs, a spaniel-size canine bred and sold in China both for their meat and luxurious fur, are one of the likeliest sources of the last 2½ years of human misery.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
  • While her spaniel whines pitifully for its missing master, her own complex feelings are still working their way to the surface.
    Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • For example, Tibetan spaniels could live to the ripe age of 15.2 years, an extremely old age for a dog with their flattened facial proportions.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But the small, water-loving hunting dogs were for years something of a South Carolina secret, and they’re still not as widely known as some other spaniel breeds.
    Jennifer Peltz, The Seattle Times, 13 Feb. 2019

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