mongrel

How To Use mongrel In A Sentence

• I didn't think the theme fill was that strong, in that two were puns (MONGREL EMPIRE and the delightful MUTTVILLE NINE) while the third, CUR CURRICULUM, seemed to be just a kind of homonymic construction. Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
• This guy, this kid, teaches his dog, a mongrel, to be a pointer, and his father hates the idea because he breeds pure-breeds.
• The irony, of course, is that the English, thoroughly mongrelized as they are, have not a clue what their own national identity might be. Blue, White, Red
• The night before, a German shepherd mongrel had come into the bar begging for potato chips.
• When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice. Sea of Thunder
• For ten years before secession, Northerners were commonly referred to as ‘mongrels and hirelings.’
• Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway. Ulysses
• Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
• He then told us of an idea he had about breeding a common, mongrelized man which every race would be distilled into, until mankind had a homogenous race.
• Shope virus in vitro and reimplanted in the animals from which they had been procured, their cells, on proliferating anew, exhibited the mongrel aspect indicative of viral influence, and their malignancy was also greatly enhanced. Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture