Crossword clues for dog-ear
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dog-ear \dog-ear\ n. a corner of a page turned down to mark a place.
Wiktionary
n. folded corner of a page (as from a book or magazine, so as to mark one's place) vb. To fold the corner of a book's page.
WordNet
n. a corner of a page turned down to mark your place
Usage examples of "dog-ear".
She was bored, too, with working in the Upright Small General Dealer, where every Saturday she did the stocktaking and spent hours ticking off items on dog-eared stock lists.
A table was stacked with a pile of dog-eared magazines, an unemptied ashtray, a forgotten bathing towel.
The banty pilot wagged a finger at Cordella and Taylor, who were in the rear of the room, idly flipping through dog-eared Stars and Stripes.
Keefer had turned over to him a set of dog-eared ledgers and the keys to the filing cabinet, and had offhandedly added several handfuls of secret mail which lay on the deck of his closet under shoes and dirty laundry.
He pulled from his ill-fitting jacket (bought with money he and Pie had won gambling in Attaboy) a dog-eared copy of Fanny Hill—the only volume in English, besides Pilgrim's Progress, which he'd been able to purchase—and used it to flail at the insects, then gave up.
This, and the fact that Aspinwall rather than himself had been asked to write the appreciation of Giles which appeared in that same programme, had made Tuke very waspish, and he had threatened to sue Monica for seizing the physical assets (a cardboard box of subscribers' cards, five muddled files of dog-eared correspondence, a complete run of the magazine, and three cartons of assorted trash) of Lantern.
A publisher's digs, it bustles with semi-organized activity and is littered with glossy promotional brochures and dog-eared SF novels.
It seemed to Stu that the days would go on forever like this: Glen bitching goodnaturedly about the food, Larry noting their mileage on his dog-eared cheat sheet, the two cups of coffee, someone burying yesterday's scut, someone else burying the fire.
A shopworn end table held dog-eared copies of boxing magazines, and pictures of boxers covered walls that cried out for fresh paint.
He had been through his clothes carefully and sifted through endless pounds of mud from the grave that the two youths, Kin Pak and Dog-eared Chen, had dug.
Goodweather Poon held the flashlight as Kin Pak, Dog-eared Chen and Smallpox Kin searched.
At once the shovel in Poon's hands whirled in an arc and crunched into the back of Dog-eared Chen's head and he collapsed with a sigh on top of Kin Pak.
The book was Peter Marlowe's novel, Changi She had found the dog-eared paperback in one of the dozens of street bookstalls in an alley just north of the hotel yesterday morning.
She had found the dog-eared paperback in one of the dozens of street bookstalls in an alley just north of the hotel yesterday morning.
He handed the battered dog-eared copy of Plutarch's Lives back to Jordan.