Used in a Sentence

poodles

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for poodles.

Editorial note

And this is exactly why breeds like Chihuahua, Poodles and Labradoodles have done so well.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(figuratively) A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of poodles gathered in one view.

noun

(figuratively) A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior.

noun

A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.

noun

(computing) A man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of Internet and security software clients' fallback to an older version of SSL.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for poodles.

noun

(figuratively) A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior.

noun

A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.

noun

(computing) A man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of Internet and security software clients' fallback to an older version of SSL.

Example sentences

1

And this is exactly why breeds like Chihuahua, Poodles and Labradoodles have done so well.

2

Particularly when the EU commission is the main driver, they generally become just bureaucratic poodles.

3

It’s equally easy to find very specific things, like Labrador retrievers, poodles, and caves.

4

For example, no number of teacup poodles is sufficient to win a dogsled race.

5

GSDs are just over a century old, Jack Russells slightly older, poodles several hundred years old and Corgis positively ancient at almost 1000.

6

If I were seeking an example of a pointless, harmful breeding program in dogs, I would not have chosen poodles.

7

Why bring up breeding for poodles in context to reviving extinct animals?

8

A few thousands of years turned wolves into teacup poodles.

9

I don't have a problem with poodles, but breeding them wasn't a conservation effort.

10

All breeds have breed-specific issues, but saying that Poodles have similar issues to brachycephalic breeds is just silly, those are different orders of magnitude of suffering.

11

Dogs didn't become poodles in a thousand years.

12

If poodles are at a zero, we are at a zero too.

Quote examples

1

The problem is “dog” encompasses 20lb to 40lb poodles and shitzus and 60lb to 100lb pitbulls and Rottweilers that can be more dangerous than wild animals that we don’t allow in public.

2

Unfortunately, the term "crafter" conjures up (in my mind) images of hot-gluing egg carton cut-outs together to form Christmas stars, and making poodles out of empty bread bags.

3

With all due respect to Chihuahuas, standard Poodles do pretty good "in the wild" and as work dogs and have a long history that doesn't involve being treated as a fashion accessory.

4

My advice would be to spin up a free EC2 instance, put a small "dog fancy" type blog/website up with a few articles about poodles, and then use something like openVPN to tunnel your traffic via tcp, port 443 through this.

Proper noun examples

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Poodles were bread to be cold water hunting dogs.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use poodles in a sentence?

And this is exactly why breeds like Chihuahua, Poodles and Labradoodles have done so well.

What does poodles mean?

(figuratively) A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior.

What part of speech is poodles?

poodles is commonly used as noun.