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Examples of “doghole” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use doghole, grouped by meaning.

noun A mean, wretched dwelling considered suitable only for dogs.

  • Nice was then no glamorous watering hole but a 'doghole' – 'the most doghole I think that be in world', so Mason wrote to Pate. — Susan Brigden, Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest (2012)

noun (historical) A small 19th-century sailing ship built to sail in shallow water and carry goods along the coast.

  • This lumber was shipped off the coast by loading doghole schooners by cable (Harrison 1892) — Marco Meniketti, Timber (2020)
  • It happened one year, early in the last century, when a doghole schooner foundered , and the poor young man was drowned along with several sailors. — M Dressler, The Last to See Me (2017)