PUPPY in a Sentence

Learn PUPPY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

28 example sentences for PUPPY, such as:

1. The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
2. This puppy is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
3. Porphyri lifted up the puppy, and bore it downstairs.
4. We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
5. I must say that I have long been wanting such a puppy.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUPPY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
puppy
 n.  a young dog
 n.  an inexperienced young person
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  I must say that I have long been wanting such a puppy.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Porphyri lifted up the puppy, and bore it downstairs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Behind them came Nozdrev's smaller buggy, with its team of lean stage horses and Porphyri and the puppy.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
5  That rascal Ferfitchkin followed with his nasty little snigger like a puppy yapping.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
6  An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
7  But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
9  At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
10  A stray bitch had made the dark corner where the sacks stood a lying-in ground for her puppies.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  But it was rather like puppies tearing the sofa cushions to bits; except that it was not young and playful, but curiously old, and rather obstinately conceited.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
13  In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  They came to pick up an easy living among the dogs and owls, which were quite defenceless against them; took possession of their comfortable houses and ate the eggs and puppies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
Example Sentence:
1  She set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
2  We were just remembering when our husky was a puppy; how small and cute is was.
3  There are a series of books for dogs; I just read one regarding to my puppy.
4  This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
5  He's described as a frisky, healthy, normal, rambunctious puppy.
6  The frolicsome puppy tried to lick the face of its master.
7  This puppy is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
8  Whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it.
9  Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy.
10  He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled, he had hoped for animals of a uniform color.