Sentence examples for adopted a stray from inspiring English sources

They moved in, and adopted a stray dog named Pork Chop.

So they adopted a stray named Iggy, a black Labrador retriever mix.

More than 12 years ago, I adopted a stray cat that was left on Route 112 in Patchogue.

Friends had recently adopted a stray from a dogs' home and had received three home visits to assess their suitability.

Then one day, about two years ago, I adopted a stray dog far too furry and wild to keep in a city apartment.

A student has adopted a stray dog from Greece, after it saved her from what she believes would have been an attack by two men on the island of Crete.

In "Sylvia," a New York couple adopts a stray dog.

A famous but evidently crazy professor adopts a stray dog and gives it a human heart and pituitary gland.

As the first batch of clay dolls is modeled, fired and painted, the family adopts a stray dog, whom Cipriano, half joking at first, names Found.

Her newest project seems likely to boost her rising star: A. R. Gurney's crowd-pleasing 1995 comedy, "Sylvia" (in previews, opening Oct. 27, at the Cort), about a New York couple, played by Matthew Broderick and Julie White, who adopt a stray dog.

She subsequently adopts a stray dog of ambiguous origins — it "didn't look mixed, more like some breed that hadn't yet been discovered" — but the dog is little comfort, and the woman regularly beats the troublesome mutt.