bloodhound

[ US /ˈbɫədhaʊnd/ ]
[ UK /blˈʌdha‍ʊnd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking
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How To Use bloodhound In A Sentence

  • The highlight of the past month has been the design conference at the Bloodhound Technical Centre in Bristol.
  • 'Twould be easy enough for the steam-swiler _Royal Bloodhound_ t 'jerk that yelpin' tramp, had she lost her propeller -- as well she might, poor helpless lady o 'fashion! in that slob-ice -- 'twould be easy enough t' rip her through a league o 'the floe t' open water, with a charge or two o 'good black powder t' help. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
  • I was born with the olfactory powers of a bloodhound, which is a blessing at fine restaurants but not in the city of Sulaimani, or Suli, in Iraqi Kurdistan. City Journal
  • His bloodhounds twain he called amain, and straightway gave her chase; Rookwood
  • Remember Wilson's motheaten old bloodhound, the good Colonel -- sorry, Lord -- Wigg? A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • Melena, with senses as keen as a bloodhound's, tracked him down easily and barred his escape.
  • His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape.
  • I'm sucked in to politics right now like a hungry tick on a bloodhound which means I've heard Joe Lieberman say the word titular one too many times today. Random Pre-Debate Political Observation of the Day
  • He gave them a bloodhound nod which flapped his eyes and his cheeks, and edged back into the rhododendrons. CHARMED LIFE
  • The English pursued with a border sleuth-bratch, or bloodhound. Anecdotes of Dogs
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