Sentence examples for dopey dog from inspiring English sources

We were a bit cross – annoyed we hadn't woken up – and not particularly surprised that our dopey dog hadn't raised the alarm, but scared we were not.

To all of us he was simply "Dopey" Lone Dog.

Rudolfo survives years in his mother's opium den, stints in reform school and a small-time circus -- not to mention a short career masquerading as a blind beggar in the company of Samson, who's blackened with shoe polish and tricked out with socks hanging from his ears to resemble a dopey Seeing Eye dog.

Dog-nous had helped him too in his first job as an assistant animator, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), in which Dopey's paw-flapping stupidity was based on hound behaviour.Of the elite animators Walt Disney gathered round him in the 1930s, the "Nine Old Men" as he called them, it was generally agreed that there was none like Mr Johnston.

Either way, it's irritating, as are his cutesy anecdotes about the family dog, and his lexicon that draws heavily not on Americanisms per se, but on movie Americanisms – "doozey", "dopey", "kinda dopey" – that bespeak a lifetime spent in Soho preview theatres listening to execrable committee-penned dialogue.

Still, if a hot dog joint speaks to elusive warm-weather pleasures, and a legal battle over dopey names is easier on the brain than a nuclear meltdown, a few words on trademark law, deep-fried hot dogs and the Clifton Hot Dog War of 2011.

"You're dopey.

Enter Dopey.

It's dopey.

"That's dopey," Adam said.

We all do dopey things.