Sentence examples for a sort of pet from inspiring English sources
Although I knew I had no right or reason to expect anything from her, beyond perhaps a bit of advice, to my delight she seemed to regard me from the start as a sort of pet project.
"It's almost like the house has become a sort of pet I look after, and it expresses that being-looked-after-ness back to me," Coates told the MIT Technology Review.
But when the elder Busch was preparing for another papal audience in April 2014, Garrett and Trinitas winemaker Kevin Mills tapped a few barrels of cabernet franc that were a sort of pet project of Garrett's.
Princesses Louise and Beatrice, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Secretary of State for India Henry Fowler had all raised concerns about Karim with the Queen, who "refused to listen to what they had to say but was very angry, so as you see the Munshi is a sort of pet, like a dog or cat which the Queen will not willingly give up".
Dolphins do a sort of petting.
Perhaps taking a cue from nearby Zoo Atlanta, the Social Goat doubles as a sort of petting zoo with resident Nigerian goats, chickens, rabbits, turkeys and koi – plus three house cats.
In North Korea, he was treated, following his release from prison, as a sort of royal pet and confidant.
Clearly, what interests her in the story of "The Beguiled," both book and film, is the same thing that interested her in "The Virgin Suicides" or "Marie Antoinette": the idea of women living in isolation, or, in the case of "The Beguiled," of women who, separated from men, receive a man as a sort of dangerous pet.
They function as a sort of public pet centre – in the way that parks make up for an absence of backyards.
