Improve your vocabulary by Quiz

Use vet in a sentence

Definition of vet:

  • (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
  • (noun) a person who has served in the armed forces
  • (verb) work as a veterinarian;
  • (verb) provide (a person) with medical care

Sentence Examples:

The vet had warned me of the possibilities of spinal trouble following distemper.

"We must get that pup away from her just as soon as ever we can," said the vet.

I wrote at once to the vet, telling him to telegraph "Curable" or "Hopeless," and to act accordingly.

At one of these lovely spots the three vets sat down on the thick green sward to rest, "on Smith's account."

Vet, who found that one of Major's tusks had penetrated the joint.

"We'll see," rejoined his comrade, "whether the vet eats it or not, for he must know all about it."

"Except when we do bag half a dozen of them at one swoop," added the vet.

She whimpered and hung back as the vet' lifted her aboard.

"He thinks I'm responsible for his losing Lady," said the vet', looking ruefully at his torn sleeve.

The poor fellow stood quietly by and seemed to read in the professor's face and gather from his hurried consultation with a brother "vet." that something out of the common was the matter with his horse.

Get home or somewhere and establish a good fat alibi; we'll give you a start before we send for the vet.

The calcium is commonly reported in terms of lime, or, as you would say, quick lime; and vet the soil may be an acid soil, like yours, and contain no lime whatever, neither as quick lime nor limestone.

Old Doc Carlyle, the vet who had tended Ulysses ever since he was a small, squealing red suckling, shook his head sadly.

He then raised himself from the earth with a light and elastic vet firm movement, and resumed the place he had previously occupied, where, to his surprise, he beheld a second victim bound, and, apparently, devoted to the same death.

While, consolidations can and should be made under the present law until it is changed, vet the provisions of the act of 1920 have not been found fully adequate to meet the needs of other methods of consolidation.

His father was a decorated Vietnam vet.

It was getting hard to keep up the pretense, especially after the local vets started to compare notes.

Thus, while, a few yards off, the official "Vets." were busily bandaging the broken legs of jackals, pouring ointments on the backs of mangy dogs, and fitting crutches to lame storks, human beings were dying, at their very elbows, of starvation.

There was no extravagance, and vet he seemed to live very much better after Marcia went.