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How to use dugout in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Dugout means a canoe made from a hollowed-out log. Example: “A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.”

Examples of dugout by meaning

nounSomeone with old-fashioned or outdated ideas, an old fogey; especially, an elderly soldier brought in for temporary...

  • The Dugouts struggled with commendable valour to meet the responsibilities thrust upon them, but too often they were untrained and unfamiliar with their work.1989, Michael Occleshaw, Armour Against Fate, Columbus Books, page 26

More sentences with dugout

  • A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.From the entry thwart
  • “Mavis, goddang it, answer up.” “That you, Carl?” she called back from the dugout.2012, Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush. From the entry answer up
  • Fishermen drop lines from their cayucas, small wooden dugout boats with upturned prows.2008 March 28, Louise Tutelian, “Guatemala as Muse and Base for a Writer”, in New York Times. From the entry cayuca
  • He doesn't own a bong, hookah, smoking pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller.2005, Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, editors, Best New American Voices 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry steamroller
  • East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill. From the entry picket house
  • Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.1964, Robert Carse, The seafarers: a history of maritime America, 1620-1820. From the entry tarpot
  • We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts.1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: The River of Doubt. From the entry cranky
  • They leaped the wall, slid down the dugout roofs, overran the cops, flooded in from the outfield bleachers, threw hats and scorecards into the air.2015, Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.. From the entry blow the roof off
  • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.2012, Paul Theroux, The Lower River. From the entry pinching
  • Sprawled out on the dugout bench, a picture of contentment, Danny Murtaugh sprayed a stream of tobacco juice onto the red gravel floor.1974 September 6, Pat Livingston, “Bad Time for a Break”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 91, number 74, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, page 26…. From the entry telecastress
  • I went back to the major's dugout and he said the field kitchen would be along and the drivers could come and get their stew.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 53. From the entry field kitchen
  • The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 80. From the entry insectiferous
  • My husband and his brother, Charles, made a dugout for us to live in and built a picket house of one room a short distance away.2014, Terri M. Baker, Connie Oliver Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives. From the entry picket house
  • Pierzynski took two steps across home plate toward the hometeam dugout, then dropped his bat and ran toward first base while the Angels stood by and watched.2007, John Billheimer, Baseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues, page 180. From the entry hometeam
  • Guardiola’s fit of pique led to his banishment from the dugout and City will wonder what might have happened if they had taken a 2–0 lead into the second half.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry pique

Meaning of dugout

  1. noun A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
  2. noun Someone with old-fashioned or outdated ideas, an old fogey; especially, an elderly soldier brought in for temporary service.
  3. noun A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.

Full definition of dugout

Questions about dugout in a sentence

How do you use dugout in a sentence?
Dugout is used as a noun. For example: “A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.”
What is a short sentence with dugout?
“A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.”
What does dugout mean?
Dugout means a canoe made from a hollowed-out log.

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