Sentence examples for lapdog that from inspiring English sources

For Barkley, who had served in Congress for thirty-one yeand and was sometimes mocked as Roosevelt's lapdog, that was one humiliation too many.

On a recent flight, she nearly mowed down an emotional-support lapdog that was running free.

The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master.

Out came a small, floppy-eared lapdog that agents practically had to drag over to sniff my backpack.

They are primarily lapdogs that provide entertainment and comfort.

It's the same lapdog reporting that enabled Bush & Co. to marshal public support for war in Iraq, to torture and spy, and allows politicians to continue to lie with impunity.

Could the source of this anxiety be that lapdogs make men seem unnecessary?

The problem is that, lapdogs aside, novels tend to be dedicated to people with whom the writer is more intimately engaged, thereby licensing an exhaustive trawl through illegitimacy, incest, suicide, insanity, homosexuality, betrayal and murder.

Since the mid-eighties, she has spent most of her time trying to concoct a cat with the temperament of a lapdog and the appearance of a tiger one that is "small, but it looks like it could take down a gazelle".

It's a tough battle to be sure, with gun manufacturers and the NRA feeding vast sums of money to their Republican lapdogs in Washington to defeat any new legislation that comes up, but that does not mean that the Democrats should give up the fight.

The first sign of a new, shinier car that drives up the block and the lapdog press will go after it and all but ignore the one they've been relentlessly chasing for the past couple of weeks.