Originally German breed of watchdog

Usage examples of doberman.

Butch, the Doberman with the grin, was right behind Peppy, and as his handler Keith Schaible watched in horror, Butch grabbed the snake behind its head and slung it around until it went limp.

Hobo was a clownish Doberman whose uncropped ears hung out from his head, giving him an off- balance, undignified appearance.

A third Doberman rises from behind the massive and half-petrified stump of a long-vanquished cedar in the side yard, around which has grown a tangled mass of holly.

On those infrequent occasions when he has guests to the house to dinner or for a business meeting, he always leaves a Doberman in the laundry room.

But either of the two sheets of glass was large enough to admit the agitated Doberman if it tried to smash through at her.

Chyna waited until the Doberman dropped from the window again before she reached to the floor and picked up the loop of excess chain to avoid tripping over it.

Glancing back and seeing the Doberman at the window again, she wished that she could leave the kitchen dark.

At the window, the Doberman twitched, flattened its ears to its skull, immediately pricked them again, found her with its eyes, and fixed her with its gaze.

She looked back and saw that the big Doberman was scratching frantically at the glass with both forepaws.

The Doberman was trapped between her and the vehicle as the chair had been between her and the river-rock wall, and it took the brunt of the impact.

In fact, the breath of the clinging Doberman fogged it too, because its muzzle was under the Plexiglas.

If she lost her footing and fell off into the yard, with no weapons and no protective clothing, the one remaining Doberman would overwhelm her and tear out her throat in ten seconds flat.

She could have jabbed at the Doberman with the wooden handle when it attacked.

The Doberman squirmed, snarled, snapped at the stool, clawed at the floor, clawed at the door, kicked, frantic to escape its trap.

It was the first time Elmo had ever seen a dog look shocked, but the Doberman managed it.