basset

Example Sentences

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It’s like telling me you beat your basset hound in tennis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Rodrigo Pirola and Cecilia Myrele, both 39, came dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintstone, matching their 4-year-old basset hound Amora, who wore an orange dress inspired by Pebbles Flintstone.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

They are doppelgangers, dead ringers with basset hound eyes a signature feature.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023

"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

He did not care to know the odds of a basset hound developing swayback, or by what process part of an earthworm could make itself whole.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen