Muzzle

//ˈmʌzəl//

"Muzzle" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Why doesn't your dog wear a muzzle?

Muzzle it.

The dog's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.

I need to buy a muzzle for my dog.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.

Others may find your dog a puzzle. Please be nice and make her wear a muzzle.

Tom stroked the horse's muzzle.

"Now, choose,” he said, drawing his sword with the right hand, and, with the left, by the same motion taking a pistol from his belt and cocking it, but turning the point of one weapon and the muzzle of the other to the ground.

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

The government is trying to muzzle the press.

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]

The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.

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