(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
dogs
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dogs.
Editorial note
What on earth makes you think that brains, lungs, intestinal tracts, and bones are unappetizing to dogs?
Quick take
(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dogs gathered in one view.
(slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
(slang, US) Toes
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dogs.
noun
(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
noun
(slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
noun
(slang, US) Toes
noun
(nautical) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.
Example sentences
What on earth makes you think that brains, lungs, intestinal tracts, and bones are unappetizing to dogs?
To start - beaks, feathers, hoofs, horns and many other pieces the cats/dogs wouldn't eat naturally.
About 1,000 pet dogs were taken – some straight from screaming children – and gassed with exhaust fumes from American military vehicles.
Both an overfitted and a perfectly generalizing model will return excellent faces of dogs.
I can't speak for cats, but it's certainly possible for dogs to do fine on a vegetarian diet.
Cats are strict carnivores[1], and dogs, while they can survive on a veg diet, it is not what they evolved to consume[2].
And thus it ends up in the stomachs of the cats and dogs.
Hell, the wolves dogs are descended for preferentially go for the dead, dying, diseased, and disabled animals (and the young).
Then, in the Spring of 1971, US military officials gave the order to round up all of the pet dogs on the island and have them killed.
How much property damage is caused by dogs?
As we say here, the dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
Cats are obligate carnivores, dogs are not.
Quote examples
If you look at their "local items" that are supposedly rebellious, it's just hot dogs like every other DQ that serves hot food serves.
It takes me back to the whole issue with processed dog foods -- kibble, while even the most expensive brands claim to be "nutritionally complete", miss the fact that dogs cannot process/absorb the many nutrients within (and why their waste is...
[1] Rabies still kills tens of thousands of people a year in Asia and Africa, in places where "get vaccinated" is not the standard response to getting bitten by a wild animal (the major vector of Rabies there is feral dogs); by the time symptoms appear it's too late.
Proper noun examples
Dogs are omnivorous scavengers - they eat almost anything, including the 'disgusting' stuff you listed.
Dogs maul children sometimes, so let's exterminate the canine species en masse.
Dogs (and humans) do a bad job at manufacturing many nutrients with animal sources, where cats don't do it at all, we just do it poorly.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use dogs in a sentence?
What on earth makes you think that brains, lungs, intestinal tracts, and bones are unappetizing to dogs?
What does dogs mean?
(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
What part of speech is dogs?
dogs is commonly used as noun.