dog-eared
adjective
having dog-ears.
dogeared
-
a variation of
dog-eared.
Example Sentences
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That’s why even when Blume’s books get pulled from shelves, kids still pass them around, with certain pages dogeared and passages circled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Fast-forward 34 years, and Richardson, now a teacher and school counselor in Alberta, Canada, dug the dogeared ticket out of a box of keepsakes and trekked to the park Thursday with her teenage daughters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
This is a strange fate for a film once dogeared as a major Palme d’Or contender.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2016
Studded with tables, and with warnings about what Mr. Kuznets calls "the penumbra of conceptual and statistical vagueness," it is bound to become a dogeared source book for students of the U.S. economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
“What are you shushing him for?” asked Kid Sampson, peeling a tangerine with his front teeth as he perused the dogeared pages of a comic book.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
