sheepdog
IPA: ʃˈipdɔg
noun
- A breed of dog, used for herding sheep.
- A breed of dog used for guarding sheep.
- (slang, dated) A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
- (US, slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
verb
- To chaperon or shepherd.
sheep dog
IPA: ʃˈipdˈɔg
noun
- Alternative form of sheepdog [A breed of dog, used for herding sheep.]
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Examples of "sheepdog" in Sentences
Examples of "sheep-dog" in Sentences
- A sheep-dog, black and white, left the porch and trotted out to meet them.
- It arose out of a sheep-dog, a yellow mongrel brute that came at us like a thunderbolt.
- So we took every dog we could find for a walk - Holly, Humphrey, little Dick (sheep-dog puppy) and four sheepdogs.
- On the other hand, being a sheep-dog, her instinctive fear of the Wild, and especially of the wolf, was unusually keen.
- Hillary is kind of like a voracious sheep-dog, barking and foaming at the mouth boasting about her abilities to lead and "fight."
- I adjusted his rug, knelt down, took one of his claws in both hands (an artistic touch, that) and gazed on him like a wistful sheep-dog.
- Hardly had the carriage entered the grounds, when he was set upon by a sheep-dog, bright-eyed, sharp-muzzled, righteously indignant and angry.
- “Rawdon,” said Becky, very late one night, as a party of gentlemen were seated round her crackling drawing-room fire (for the men came to her house to finish the night; and she had ice and coffee for them, the best in London): “I must have a sheep-dog.”
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