Sentence examples for mark a dog from inspiring English sources

Burton's prose is sometimes overwrought but more often she hits her mark: a dog moves through the shadows like "spilled liquid", while the wife of Brandt's business associate "swims in her great skirts" across a room, beautifully capturing both her importance and her impotence.

Is Mark a dog or a cat person?

"I saw the 4-year-old boy, and he had an injury under his knee that was definitely the mark of a dog bite," said Rasoul Adel, a local television reporter.

Between the two sites are 201 mile of open trail, marked only by a dog drop at Scroggie Creek, an abandoned gold-mining site activated only during the Yukon Quest.

Amid the disorder, Mr. Acosta said, he sometimes found cups of urine, which he likened to "a dog marking territory".

You're not a dog marking your territory so there's no need to let others know you were there.

I came to see this as a dog marking his territory; my husband said it just spoke to our plumber's conviction that he would be returning shortly to fix something else.

She hangs a single pair of $525 Manolo Blahnik shoes there as a dog would mark its territory.

The principle of clicker training is the use the click-clack to mark the exact moment of a dog's good behaviour and then give the dog a reward.

Groucho is in charge of the movie and he talks all over it, like a dog peeing to mark out territory.

Each has a bowl marked "DOG" and a soft toy to play with, which seems a thoughtful touch.