wild dog


noun
  1. another name for dingo

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How to use wild dog in a sentence

  • It was the head and face of an animal, and yet it was the face of Sangree: the face of a wild dog, a wolf, and yet his face.

    Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
  • The vulture croaked and flapped its wings, the wild dog growled, glared, and slunk away.

    Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
  • A nation rising in its might at sunrise, going forth to conquer, and at nightfall—lo, a wild dog mumbling a bone!

    Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
  • Bobby turned around and around on the hearth, like some little wild dog making a bed in the jungle, before he obeyed.

    Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
  • This wild dog appeared to me to be differently marked from one I had shot a few weeks before more to the southwest.