35 examples of watchdogs in sentences

I'm not a watchdog.

It interested me vastly, and I resolved to make him the most perfect of watchdogs.

On the road to Piraeus, mules and donkeys carried baskets full of olives and wine-grapes; behind them, in the red cloud of dust, marched herds of nannygoats, before each herd there was a white-bearded buck; on the sides, watchdogs; in the rear, shepherds, playing flutes of thin oat-stems.

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."

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

In determining the choice of a breed it is to be remembered that some are better watchdogs than others, some more docile, some safer with children.

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.

The steam engine was running day and night, and the watchman had orders to go the rounds of the place every hour during the night; but the Apaches were so skillful and secretive in their movements that not the least intimation of their presence on the place was observed,not even by the watchdogs, which generally have a keen scent for Indians.

He proceeds as follows: "This jealousy betrayed itself still more when Michelangelo once begged the loan of a certain sketch-book, wherein Domenico had portrayed shepherds with their flocks and watchdogs, landscapes, buildings, ruins, and such-like things.

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

" "Watchdog!

The world's history of art and letters affords too many examples of men who, because they refused to pay court to the ruling cliques and circles of their little day, had seen the doors of recognition slammed in their faces; and who, even as they wrought their great works, had been forced to hear, as they toiled, the discordant yelpings of the self-appointed watchdogs of the halls of fame.

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.

(In The Watchdog, Apr. 1945)

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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.

His only anxiety had been caused by the constant prowling of Reynard, who, however, had been successfully at a distance by the watchdogs.

35 examples of  watchdogs  in sentences