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How to use pug in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Pug means a pug dog, a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. Example: “Thus, the roast might be ceremonially borne out ahead of the departing ‘Pugs,’ or it might be left behind so that the lower servants could have second helpings.”

Examples of pug by meaning

nounChiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.

  • Thus, the roast might be ceremonially borne out ahead of the departing ‘Pugs,’ or it might be left behind so that the lower servants could have second helpings.1962, E[rnest] S[ackville] Turner, “The Female Branch”, in What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem, London...

verbTo mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.

  • to pug clay ready for shaping

More sentences with pug

  • Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals.2011, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Sugarcane Processing and By-Products of Molasses. From the entry massecuite
  • Her large face and wide cheekbones accommodated an oversized mouth and a pug nose.2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 176. From the entry witchly
  • Pug could just see Slote's pale face under his fur hat.1971, Herman Wouk, chapter 52, in The Winds of War. From the entry customer
  • There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117. From the entry goldendoodle
  • Her complexion was pale, except for the apple-red of her cheeks and a spritz of freckles dotting her pug nose.2003, Jerilyn A. DePete, chapter 7, in Thin Air, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry apple-red
  • The pepperette is cast as a begging pug dog, the salt as a bear: both have decoratively pierced pull-off heads .1980, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. From the entry pepperette
  • “He's a troublesome, worrisome, juggle-some pug.”2013, Sean Bryan, The Juggling Pug. From the entry jugglesome
  • I say no, because we have a fat little pug who likes to frolic outside occasionally and I don't want to see him eaten.2012 April 17, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, →ISBN. From the entry -en
  • Outside the enclosures a parade of pugs went solemnly through their exercises—skipping rope, mayheming the punching bags, pawing the air at invisible opponents.1942 April 20, “Nostalgia on Jacobs Beach: Fight Club’s End Raises the Ghosts of Famous Bygone Battles”, in Newsweek, volume XIX, number…. From the entry mayhem
  • I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 33. From the entry museau

Meaning of pug

  1. noun A pug dog, a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
  2. noun A pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
  3. noun In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.

Full definition of pug

Questions about pug in a sentence

How do you use pug in a sentence?
Pug is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Thus, the roast might be ceremonially borne out ahead of the departing ‘Pugs,’ or it might be left behind so that the lower servants could have second helpings.”
What is a short sentence with pug?
“to pug clay ready for shaping”
What does pug mean?
Pug means a pug dog, a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.

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