35 examples of watchdog in sentences

I'm not a watchdog.

"My husband has sent to New York for a watchdog, and he says that from this on our house shall never be without one.

guardianship, wardship, wardenship; tutelage, custody, safekeeping; preservation &c 670; protection, auspices. safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield &c (defense) 717; guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci. protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna [Sp.], chaperon, third person. watchdog, bandog^; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop [Slang], dick

550. sentinel, sentry,, watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog^, housedog^; patrol, patrolman, vedette^, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial^; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.

Slaves and cattle stood on the same level; a good watchdog, it is said in a Roman writer on agriculture, must not be on too friendly terms with his "fellow- slaves."

Interference in the emergence First, by casting itself in the role of cultural and institutional watchdog, governments, particularly in the United States, became internet society's enemy.

I added: "Bartholomew Storrs, as sexton, has constituted himself watchdog of our graves and censor of our dead.

These voices had no hint of the homely barking of a watchdog, the friend of man's loneliness!

This was about all apparently that he was going to be good for this summer; but a watchdog's duties he could perform in a highly efficient manner.

BRAZIL. 3. WATCHDOG.

And when I said 'watchdog' you answered first 'scent' and then 'tail'; when I said 'Brazil' you answered first 'ship' and then 'coffee,' when I said 'dreams' you answered first 'fear' and then 'sleep'; you made these changes with the deliberate purpose to get as far away as possible from associations with the crime.

"I guess he wouldn't be much of a watchdog.

" "Watchdog!

Hyacinth Halvey: Calling to me every little minuteexpecting me to do this thing and that thingwatching me the same as a watchdog, their eyes as if fixed upon my face.

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I tried to establish some control over Tom, as a substitute for the fear he felt for his master, who was not always within call, and who insisted that Tom could be tamed so as to serve the place of a watchdog.

" "The captain," says Lady Brassey, "drowned his favorite dog, a splendid Newfoundland, just before leaving the ship; for although a capital watchdog and very faithful, he was rather large and fierce; and when it was known that the Sunbeam was a yacht with ladies and children on board, he feared to introduce him.

As a half-grown boy I killed our good, kind watchdog in one of my fits of rage for some trifling offense, and I have never ceased to regret it.

35 examples of  watchdog  in sentences