How to Use puppy in a Sentence

puppy

noun
  • Our dog just had four puppies.
  • Peanut the puppy lost most of his nose.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • See the gallery of the puppies.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Naru as a puppy, and right, as an adult.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The puppies weren't just along for the ride.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Many of these puppies are trucked in from out of state.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Or maybe like a fuzzy velour, like the fur of a puppy.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the puppies are all cleaned up and on the hunt for homes.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Then the puppy chewed the wood filler, so some of it is now gray.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
  • One of my friends’ dogs gave birth, and the puppies are just adorable!
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Dogs have short, round faces as puppies but long, snouty faces as adults.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • By around eight weeks old, most puppies are ready to move to a new home.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, Keao says yes, just not a puppy.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Drew said the puppies were in bad shape, and one was on the brink of death.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
  • Have a puppy in the house who is just learning to play?
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Have a puppy in the house who is just learning to play?
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • This is a sick puppy who will do…anything.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The puppy is held in the palm of someone's hand.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These plush toys are sized for puppies and petite dogs.
    — Jessica Moore, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These guys are sick puppies writing a script like that.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This is not about taking the wag out of the puppy’s tail.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For her, the puppy surprise was more than just a dog.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The puppies drank their mother's milk—no cost to us.
    — David Sedaris may 3, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Mosier loves putting a smile on people’s faces with her puppy.
    — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2024
  • My friend just drove to pick up a new puppy after her dog had died.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 8 June 2021
  • But the puppy wasn’t ready to say goodbye.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The puppy, like me, is on her first outing in search of jaguars.
    — Emiliano Ruprah, Wired, 31 July 2021
  • And our one-year-old puppy has never spent a full day in the crate.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 May 2021
  • At the time, she was found as a stray puppy and matched with an owner.
    — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025

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