Sentence examples for housebroken the from inspiring English sources

For advocates, the worry now is that the governor has housebroken the commission, and that it will present proposals that will trouble no one.

Once the dog is finally housebroken the owner may possibly feel a heightened sense of pride in both themselves and their dog.

A coupling of cruelty and sentimentality introduces "Housebroken," the title story of Yael Hedaya's three novellas of remarkable emotional power.

Indeed, the only flaws in this collection are the longueurs of the affair in "Housebroken," the squabbles and rekindling of affection that strain to become a love affair.

The Giuliani mayoral era might be divided in two: In the first term, he fought crime and a calcified Civil Service, and left a couple of unions housebroken; in the second, he replayed all of this as farce.

The Interior Department dogs — carefully vetted for vaccinations, behavioral problems and assurances that they were housebroken — spent the morning lying under their owners' desks, sleeping, attending meetings (quietly) and walking along C Street NW when they needed to relieve themselves.

The shining city of New York opened for business Tuesday morning, one day after the normally very obedient and housebroken City Council rose up against the mayor and voted down a heavily subsidized shopping mall development at the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.

"The guest assured us the dog was housebroken," he said.

They thought that I would love them, listen to them, learn to fuck them, and that they in turn would plump the pillows, go to the movies I wanted to see, make lemonade according to the long-boiling recipe I preferred, peel the tomatoes as I insisted, and, despite all this deference to me, feel that I was the one being housebroken.

Puppies 6-8 weeks old need to use the bathroom every hour during the day until they're housebroken.

Like a pet dog, a baby needs to be fed, housebroken, and taught to sleep through the night without howling.