A detective who follows a trail.
A breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking.
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Examples for "bloodhound "
Examples for "bloodhound "
1 All the malevolence of the human bloodhound seemed concentrated in his look.
2 One was the wolf-dog of the country, the other a Spanish bloodhound .
3 But you in your position must have regarded me as a bloodhound .
4 A forthright Dutchman might say its owner had bloodhound in his lineage.
5 He had come down the centuries like a bloodhound on a trail.
1 Baxter the watchdog must retire, to be succeeded by Baxter the sleuthhound .
2 The instinct of the sleuthhound is beginning to stir in me.
3 Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound .
4 The detective paid no attention, his face had hardened, he seemed every inch the remorseless sleuthhound of the law.
5 Its speciality-or ,ifyou like, its oddity-wasthis merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.
6 She was working like a regular sleuthhound , now, too, slowly, picking up the trail and following it, baying as she went.
7 Ralph said doggedly, though a Scot, correct for once in his grammar; and he pursued a recalcitrant particle through the dictionary like a sleuthhound .
8 Till the police come we are only a pack of very amateur sleuthhounds .
9 At that time bloodhounds, or sleuthhounds , were used for the purpose of pursuing great criminals.
10 You have tracked me like sleuthhounds .
11 "You'll turn me into a regular sleuthhound , " he laughed.
12 They are as sleuthhounds in the infallibility of their scent, and in their sayings no less sententious than the rubrics of the law.
13 "The instinct of the sleuthhound , " he said to himself, "is all very well, but why on earth haven't I told Furley about the car?"
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