puppy dog

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Recent Examples of puppy dog If all else fails, Hope says, Jack needs to put on his sad puppy dog face. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Ivan acts like the world’s horniest puppy dog, but Ani takes a shine to him. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024 Liberatore’s puppy dog attention as loyalite Dean compels, yearning to hold Jade’s kiss and not just her camera. David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025 Lochlan is mostly just a puppy dog, not really joining in but not really bothered by his family’s excesses, either. Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for puppy dog
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppy dog
Noun
  • Dogs often developed sores on their feet from living on the wire mesh floors of their cages, and often puppies could be seen with their legs and paws falling through the holes, documents showed.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • In the midst of a Texas storm last week, a tiny trembling puppy was found clinging onto life, left in an onion sack, shivering and covered in ticks.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Coyotes, like wolves, live in family groups of a dominant breeding pair, their pups, and several nonbreeding males and females.
    Helen Whybrow July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
  • He's been with two of the pups, Tyson and Yuki, every day since their birth about 14 years and eight months ago.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico named the six wolf dogs after characters created by fantasy author Sarah J. Maas Six wolfdogs are spending their holiday season enjoying a winter wonderland after being kept as pets.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Wolf-dogs are quarrelsome, but not a great deal more so than normal sled dogs.
    Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
  • Thirty years ago, there were 30,000 sled dogs in Greenland.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 14 June 2025

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“Puppy dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppy%20dog. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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