basset

Example Sentences

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He once described himself as “a basset hound with a 25-watt personality.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

"Then when Freda died my father himself bought another basset hound, the second Freda, and that was how it all started."

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2023

It could be the day for the petit basset griffon Vendéen named for Buddy Holly.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023

They’re wild, swimming rodents the size of basset hounds with an obsession for building dams.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022

Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen