dogtrot

Example Sentences

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With its boxy geometry and dogtrot porch — three rooms on one side of the breezeway and two on the other — the folk-style house looks like a collaboration between Donald Judd and Annie Oakley.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

Christian homilies, dogtrot poetry, and treacly moralizing are delivered in a smooth, slightly formal country voice that goes down like lemonade with all the tang sugared out of it.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2016

With minimal prompting, she is happy to hold forth on the history and architecture of dogtrot houses.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2014

Pat was one of eight children reared in the family’s dogtrot house in the cotton patch.

From Washington Post

I had slowed to a dogtrot as I passed the pond, and when I reached the store I stopped, got partly behind it, and sat down where I could still watch the road.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien