TERRIER in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for TERRIER, such as:
1. But the others scoffed in reply, and pointed to the veterans on the flanks who were digging at the ground like terriers.
2. A waiter was running up a trail of bunting on the flagstaff and a fox terrier was scampering to and fro on the sunny lawn.
3. As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry.
4. The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.
5. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily.
2. A waiter was running up a trail of bunting on the flagstaff and a fox terrier was scampering to and fro on the sunny lawn.
3. As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry.
4. The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.
5. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily.
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Meanings and Examples of TERRIER
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terrier
n. any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground
Classic Sentence:
1 As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2 The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion for a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
3 Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
4 A waiter was running up a trail of bunting on the flagstaff and a fox terrier was scampering to and fro on the sunny lawn.
5 I have an English bull terrier who has as much of that sort of courage as the whole Bulgarian nation, and the whole Russian nation at its back.
6 Miss Cathy rejected the peace-offering of the terrier, and demanded her own dogs, Charlie and Phoenix.
7 For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily.
8 But the others scoffed in reply, and pointed to the veterans on the flanks who were digging at the ground like terriers.
9 There were ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage.
Example Sentence:
1 The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.