dog-eat-dog
Example Sentences
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The music industry is dog-eat-dog — you’re just trying to stay relevant.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
He just wanted to play, so he pushed on in what he's called the dog-eat-dog world of professional rugby, disastrously as it turned out.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023
“When they abandon multilateralism, everybody else abandons it and it becomes a dog-eat-dog world. And that’s the challenge.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The strong are not safe either in that kind of dog-eat-dog world — they are at risk from each other.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2022
My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
