Sample Sentences for
canine
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

canine as in:  canine unit

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They called in a canine search-and-rescue team.
canine = dog
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    A canine unit smelled drugs in the locker.
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    The green eyes glowering at me are unlike any dog or wolf, any canine I've ever seen.  (source)
    canine = of or relating to dogs
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    Before I could ask what she meant, I heard that canine growl again, but much closer than before.  (source)
    canine = dog-like
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    There's a disturbing, monkeylike glint of canines off to the sides when he grins.†  (source)
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    The girl gave another canine tilt to her head.  (source)
    canine = dog-like
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    This time when he shows his teeth they remind me of the curved white canines of a dog.†  (source)
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    But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals, — a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.  (source)
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    Adel noticed that his chin was a bit small for his face and that he had overlapping extra canines in the front, one of them chipped badly and rotting.†  (source)
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    ... and she arrived without adventure to the gate of the farmhouse, when Hareton happened to issue forth, attended by some canine followers, who attacked her train.  (source)
    canine = dog
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    I gripped the knife in my hand, a razor claw for killing, and with my tongue I felt my teeth, the sharpness of my canines.†  (source)
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    I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.  (source)
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    He ran his tongue along his upper teeth and was only a little surprised to feel his canines hardening and sharpening into fangs.†  (source)
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    I'd put my right-hand index finger in behind his white canines.†  (source)
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canine as in:  dog's canine

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People have one canine on each side of the jaw between the incisors and first premolars.
canine = conical-shaped teeth found in dogs and many other mammals
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    Canines help to tear food apart.
    canines = conical-shaped teeth
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    My upper canines are so pronounced, I call them fangs.
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    In particular, by some trick of the light, the canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.  (source)
    canine = conical-shaped (like a dog's teeth)
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    One bottom front tooth crossed over a canine.  (source)
    canine = conical-shaped teeth found in dogs and many other mammals
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    I admire her intact canines from afar.  (source)
    canines = conical-shaped teeth
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    Gholam searched Adel's eyes as a grin slowly spread across his face, exposing his rotting canine.†  (source)
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    In short, because Shawn lost his canines, I was able to keep mine.  (source)
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    It won't come near anyone—human or canine.†  (source)
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    His upper canines had never grown in, and the string of holistic dentists my parents had taken him to as a child had failed to notice until it was too late.  (source)
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    He threw back his head, showing his canine teeth, and the laughter seemed to fill the alleyway.†  (source)
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    "We'll have a baby because—" His eyes go dark, canine, and he grabs me by the arms again.†  (source)
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    Then I heard a sound that sent a chill up my spine, a low canine growl, somewhere close by.†  (source)
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    Safia slammed on the horn with her detonator hand, and both man and canine moved out of the car's path.†  (source)
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