Sentence examples for a beaten dog from inspiring English sources

He looked absolutely wretched, like a beaten dog.

"I felt like a beaten dog after every performance".

Not many 18-year-old girls can make a grown man cower like a beaten dog.

This why we were founded 188 years ago and is what our supporters expect from us, whether it is a beaten dog, exported calf or hunted fox.

That another friend wouldn't visibly wince like a beaten dog when a parent's arm unexpectedly came down, only to rest playfully across his shoulders.

But as far as Mr. Emi was concerned, he told The Los Angeles Times in 1993, "We could either tuck our tails between our legs like a beaten dog or stand up like free men and fight for justice".

Defeated mammals make themselves small, as you can see in the cowed, tail-between-the-legs and head-down posture of any beaten dog.

Even as a child, she had cultivated hurtful friendships, had forever been suffering slights or neglect or flat-out cruelty, this girl like a loyal beaten dog.

She is marked but not defined by her illness, and when she encounters a brutally beaten dog along the road, she decides it would be "[b]etter to be ugly and unwomanly than to leave a loyal dog to suffer," grabs "a piece of tarry stone to finish what the rustlers must have started," and kills the animal.

For some the whole point of dog meat is to render the energizing "heat", actually adrenaline, released when the dog was tortured to death, and there is also a widespread belief that eating beaten dog in particular increases sexual stamina.

Simply from the sound of their shoes on the stairs, she knew her friends were coming down "like beaten dogs".