How to Use working dog in a Sentence

working dog

noun
  • As a working dog, he was thrilled to be put to use.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, all 63 study dogs were house pets, not working dogs.
    — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Watch the video to learn more about the access rights of working dogs.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Evan is a working dog and conducts himself by a strict set of rules.
    — Ellen Gormley, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The breed is known for their high energy and making good working dogs.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 13 June 2019
  • Of course those aren't the only things military working dogs are trained to do.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Watch this video for the do’s and don’ts of interacting with a working dog.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Ever since then, the park has maintained working dog teams, although their job has since evolved.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Preston of the Yukon, gets from place to place on a sled pulled by but a single hard-working dog.
    — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Kennels that had a few working dogs added a few more, or borrowed a few and hit the trail for Nome.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2020
  • This happens if a dog doesn’t make it through training to become a working dog or when the dog retires.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Latham found that the spinal condition was common in all the dogs and wolves, even the non-working dogs.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 June 2019
  • Service dogs are not required to wear anything that identifies them as a working dog.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
  • They can be referred to as contract working dogs, and are still federal assets.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Obama on that trip also met with one of the working dogs, Cairo, who took part in the bin Laden raid.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Some of these purebreds might have the right looks, but not the right temperament, to become a working dog.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The movie takes viewers all over the world to meet six working dogs that brave earthquakes and avalanches and help people with special needs.
    — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The emphasis is more on their functionality as a working dog, rather than their breed.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In Afghanistan, military working dogs may wear cameras and scout areas before troops move in.
    — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
  • These puppies, believed to be a collie-working dog crossbreed, were left in the park, posing a threat to the local wildlife.
    — Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Rottweilers are a classic working dog breed and often serve in police forces or to assist those with poor eyesight.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Levi is just one of the working dogs in the emerging market for animal influencers on social media.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2018
  • The new study means archaeologists need to rethink some of their assumptions about how prevalent working dogs were in the past.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 18 June 2019
  • That, said Woods, is important for service and working dogs, so they can be placed in a setting that suits their abilities best.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 14 Dec. 2025
  • These working dogs would have been prominent in the animals left behind when the area was evacuated.
    — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The breed was first developed as a working dog in Newfoundland to assist fishermen.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Railroad police also provided three working dogs to search along the tracks adjacent to the academy.
    — Fox News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Perhaps not surprisingly, service and other working dogs performed somewhat better at the task than did pets.
    — Linda Lombardi, National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Great Pyrenees and Rottweilers are both working dog breeds, bred for guarding and assisting tasks.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, some of the organizations involved in training these working dogs are also saving the canines by finding them jobs.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019

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