houndlike
- a word derived from hound.
Example Sentences
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He has a houndlike face, with droopy flews.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2020
He is a former professor of philosophy, carelessly dressed, with watery blue eyes and a fleshy, houndlike face.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The overall impression was of a long face, a triangular face, a bit houndlike.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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He was not a special breed of dog—though there was something rather houndlike about him—he was just a dog.
From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth
He loped off swiftly, a lean brown houndlike creature, a Grand Commerce development of some aristocratic Terran breed and probably a considerable improvement on the best of his progenitors.
From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.