retriever

Example Sentences

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Pickle is an eight-year-old black labrador retriever guide dog.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

By scanning the entire genome of each golden retriever, they identified genetic markers that appeared more frequently in dogs displaying particular behavioral traits.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

He wasn’t sure when he’d be able to move back home to Altadena with Daisy May, his 13½-year-old golden retriever.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2025

Political systems that resemble one another in their fundamental structure and function are like species in the animal kingdom: A chihuahua is not a golden retriever, but they are both dogs.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

They needed a golden retriever, and they would have nailed the center spread in Better Homes and Gardens.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin