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
If mongrel species represent genetic novelty and are stabilizing components of their ecosystems, are they not worth saving?
‘Cross the rhaine,’ they shouted out, ‘cross the rhaine, and coom within rache:’ but the other mongrel Britons, with a mongrel at their head, found it pleasanter to shoot men who could not shoot in answer, than to meet the chance of mischief from strong arms, and stronger hearts. Lorna Doone
There is was with a chicken leg in its mouth, grinning in such a way only an emaciated mongrel kitten-cat can grin.
The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat. The Maine Woods
One of the more unusual recruits to the unit was Tramp, a mongrel dog found starving and very ill in a puddle under the yacht.
Those who came to this show laughed at the antics of the mongrels, and noticed that canines could suffer from stage fear.
Pedigree or mongrel, the canines dislike it when their owners show affection for other dogs.
With the latter choice, the firm was clearly responding to the increasingly avant-garde taste of the time, for by 1930 metal simulating wood was considered by style critics to be ‘a mongrel form, dishonest and unbeautiful.’
Only the immigrant generation uses this mongrelized Bulgarian; their American-educated children are more likely to consider English their primary language.
This was a mongrel breed incorporating strains of Labrador, Greyhound, anything that could advance the genes of endurance and pulling power.
They are mating with the local rare species of white-headed duck producing a mongrel that could force the indigenous breed into extinction.
Only an officer (OC B Coy this time), would think that Westphalian tripehound was an actual breed when he asked me what sort of dog my little mongrel was. Army Rumour Service
From the existence of the Deity to the effect of a blister on a windgall, through the whole range of stable-thought and horse-talk, there was no subject, speaking generally, on which that mongrel population agreed, except, of course, on one thing -- the universal desirability of whiskey. Bred In The Bone 1908
Such comments are unlikely to endear him to Liverpool's under-fire players, which is a shame as they're crying out for a bit of the mongrel that is the Afghan Hound lookalike's stock-in-trade. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend
Mexicans in both Mexico or the USA a "mongrelized" nation and Native Americans being portrayed a "dying" race in racial scientific journals. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The only animal life that he encountered on the island were a small mongrel dog and a female pig that was a bit thin from lack of food.
A downtown babel of shop signs and streets, mongrelized, polyglot, a ferment without Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
We had our trade with Spain and the French and with the Flemings before those mongrels were pupped, Spanish ale in Galway, the winebark on the winedark waterway. — Ulysses
Lily the mongrel puppy was one of the first pooches to go online to promote a stray dogs website in North Yorkshire.
This is a Northern European mongrel of dizzy lo-fi with pop hooks to help you escape the everyday.
Her attack dog is a mutt, and, as everyone knows, mongrels are healthier than pedigreed dogs.
He has done workshops with farmers in Cambodia and his findings support the general belief that many farmed animals are genetic mongrels.
But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. A Real-Life Renaissance Man
The January Dancer by Michael Flynn - Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Books in the Mail (W/E 08/16/2008)
The people I have known have been a scruffy lot, a ragtag of mongrels from all over the place, but I would not change them for the world.
I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.
Anyone who wants to test this theory is most welcome to come over my place, jump the back fence and seize the little MF in the garden 2 doors up that belongs to some feral fracking hippy whose kid calls the mongrel bird ‘Harriet’. Cheeseburger Gothic » The comments that don’t make it in.
I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.
There are exceptional layers, dependable profit-payers, in practically every fair-sized flock, whether made up of standard-bred stock or mongrels. Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
If everyone has a purebred dog that does not even belong to our country, then what do we do to our poor Indian mongrels who are as healthy and loyal as the so called pedigree dogs?
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
mongrelized dogs
My formerly-feral cat, Buddy, an all-black mongrel found on the streets when he was about eight months old, is now nearly three years old.
The blues, it seems, has become co-opted, and then co-opted back: mongrelized, in the best sense of the word, like the rest of American culture.
I am English, Irish, Portugese, Swedish, Duthch in other words a mongrel of sorts. Undefined
‘Don't worry, the mongrel won't bite,’ he assured.
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
Crossbreeds and mongrels are generally physically healthier than purebreds, more psychologically stable and invariably live longer.
This exchange of heads took place without my being at all aware that the "Strad" scroll had returned to its original body; but on my mentioning the circumstance to my father, he informed me, to my astonishment and delight, that if the head of the mongrel Fiddle had been placed on the Stradivari, date 1710, from the Goding collection, it was now, as the effect of recent transmigration, on its own legitimate body. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
The Normans' attempt to foist their language on their subjects would eventually result in the mongrelism of Middle English which explains modern English's glut of synonyms. Gothic buildings: pillars of faith
Now there's a chance this inherently mongrelized art form may be ready for revival. Baroque and the Bard: Mash-Up at the Met
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel. The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv
It's a mongrel canine bred to kill rats and to keep foxes trapped in their lairs until the hounds arrive for the kill.
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
In the mongrelized USA, Duke could say whatever he wanted, but here in the cradle of National Socialist romance and idealism, there was no First Amendment. The Lampshade
He tossed his apple core to a grey mongrel dog that had been trailing him though he doubted very much that it would be appreciated.
Except the dogs of the Factor's train, there were few real "huskies," as Eskimo dogs are called, for most of the brutes were the usual sharp-nosed, heavy-coated mongrels that in the Strong Woods Country go by the name of _giddes_; some, however, had been sired by wolves. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
And who controls the money and wants to mongrelize the world? WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
The reason, they say, is the creation of a new race of mongrel salmon - the product of escaped farmed salmon breeding with wild fish.
Lily the mongrel puppy was one of the first pooches to go online to promote a stray dogs website in North Yorkshire.
Under the right conditions, the newcomer aids the group - an effect that is increased if the group is already mongrelized, because then resistance to the outsider will be lower.
Japanese mongrel pigmented male rabbits weighing 2.5 to 3.5 kg were used.
The mongrelized Westerns were made here by actors who couldn't get better jobs in California.
“It was a fine summer’s night, and there was not wind enough to fill a sky-sail, and on I went the back-way to the place where we used to meet in the summer-house: but as I was nearing it, I thought I heard two voices: I hove to, and listened. it was a mongrel kind of gabble, between Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
The dogs - a mongrel, a Labrador, a papillon and three cocker spaniels - identified their chosen sample by lying down next to it.
I want to say the genius of the human race is mongrelised.
Britain is a mongrel country of Britons, Celts, Scots, Picts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, members of the Empire and Commonwealth, and many more groups.
Other results showed that there was no distinction between pedigree and mongrel dogs although pedigree cats performed better than cross-breed cats.
With them was Bacchus, a mongrel dog who won the hearts of the crew and was rewarded in 1943 with a National Canine Defence League valiant dog medal.
The council had served him an environmental protection notice, ordering him to silence his dog, a mongrel called Charlie which he has had for seven years.
Not a greyhound but a mongrel; a snarling, biting, clawing dog who has to wear a spike collar round its neck for its own protection.
All free peoples have a right to self-determination and we who live near to or in the Pennines demand the same rights as the Scots and the Welsh, (but not the English, who aren't entitled to self determination because they are a multi-cultural mongrel hot potch undeserving of privileged minprity status). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Bull-terriers, retrievers, nondescripts — the dog-lover abhors the term mongrel — sheep dogs and cattle dogs, pointers, and, most beloved of all, Irish terriers. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
The dog, an ungainly mongrel pup, was loping about the road.
In appearance, the dogs took a number of forms; retriever sized long muzzled hounds, heavily built greyhounds, border collies, Alsatian crosses and some forms of ‘lap dog’, probably small mongrels.
In fact, according to some European-authored racial taxonomies–the one I am thinking of is either by Richard Wagner or one of his relatives–Jews were even more “mongrelized” than Blacks. The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories
The city was no mongrel conglomeration of edifices built independently of one another, but a single, flowing ocean of architecture that stretched on to the horizon.
The dogs - a mongrel, a Labrador, a papillon and three cocker spaniels - identified their chosen sample by lying down next to it.
Most dogs would have been mongrels of one sort or another, however the various traits of certain types of dog were already highly valued.
The offspring of a mating between two purebred dogs of different breeds is a mongrel, a mutt.
Lily the mongrel puppy was one of the first pooches to go online to promote a stray dogs website in North Yorkshire.
They prefer a mongrel vitality to a purebred stillness, a jumbled collage to a more settled composition.
The word mongrel, by definition, is not an offensive term. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
My two dogs, both mongrels, died at 13 and 15 years old.
The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.
He lies in the nest for tonight, taken from a stray mutt and her mongrel puppies.
Some day a bright spark or a very small collection of bright sparks will come up with a better and fully integrated language, rather like the emergence of ‘C’ from the Babel of mongrelised languages and dialects that preceded it.
So they opened up the event to mutts and mongrels too, with categories like Most Appealing Eyes.
So they opened up the event to mutts and mongrels too, with categories like Most Appealing Eyes.
The Mongrel Club will also submit our views to AFCD and concern groups attending the meeting.
Even a born-and-bred cockney could understand the published, mongrel Scots-English version.
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
He walks his dog Jenny, an 11-year-old mongrel, past the river every day and saw the Environment Agency experts inspecting the dead fish.
I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements.
We also tossed the narcissistic Gallicism “memoir,” which we decided was a linguistic mongrel of “me” and “moi.” Last Words
This was explained to us by a priest, in Italianized French of the most mongrel description, translated by me and listened to by Christine and Lisa with eager faces and wide-open eyes. In Château Land
The mongrel horde of accepted taste will continually have different leaders as they nose in front of each other depending on our angle as listeners/viewers.
With a mongrel of overcast sun straying to and from her heels, she scoured all three for conspicuous features related to light.
This was a mongrel breed incorporating strains of Labrador, Greyhound, anything that could advance the genes of endurance and pulling power.
The mongrel hounds rushed up a slope, into a stand of scrub.
The one time he did manage to grab the mongrel by its collar the mange-ridden beast buried its teeth in the old man's hand, causing frantic scenes of first aid in the kitchen, where Mam poured Mercurochrome on the wound and bandaged it in a clean tea towel. Mad dogs and irishmen
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
The two mongrel dogs skulked to her side and sniffed at the hem of her dress.
Her attack dog is a mutt, and, as everyone knows, mongrels are healthier than pedigreed dogs.
Pedigree dogs and mongrels performed the same overall, but pedigree cats scored marginally higher than mixed breed cats on all the tests.
While Rawlin and David, looking like mongrels back from a prowl, laugh and stare at us like we were some sort of surreal aliens.
Although mong, from the Old English gemong, meaning “mixture,” is still with us in the form of among, the word mongrel has gained an ugly, snarling connotation; for years mongrelization was a term used by racists. No Uncertain Terms
Over the past year she has noticed unusual stereotyped behaviour displayed by Candy, her 9 year old mongrel bitch, which occurs only before hypoglycaemic episodes.
Other results showed that there was no distinction between pedigree and mongrel dogs although pedigree cats performed better than cross-breed cats.
There was a short silence between them, only interrupted when the mongrel dog jumped onto the foot of the bed. ‘Get down, Pia,’ ordered Sam.
And who controls the money and wants to mongrelize the world? WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
The offspring of a mating between two purebred dogs of different breeds is a mongrel, a mutt.
Many mongrel dogs could be seen walking freely on the streets.
It sounded a trifle more impressive than my current surroundings, which featured several soldiers playing at chuck-a-luck on the floor, a flea-ridden mongrel asleep by the fire, and a strong smell of hops. Dragonfly in Amber
Such comments are unlikely to endear him to Liverpool's under-fire players, which is a shame as they're crying out for a bit of the mongrel that is the Afghan Hound lookalike's stock-in-trade. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend
Pedigree dogs and mongrels performed the same overall, but pedigree cats scored marginally higher than mixed breed cats on all the tests.
These parades are very attractive: there are Rottweilers dancing to the country music in stylish disguises in front of its owner, vital grannies skipping with their mongrels, funky girls in funky-disco uniforms with their funky ridgebacks, or ladies in costumes and vestees with their cheery border collies.
The dog, an ungainly mongrel pup, was loping about the road.
There was what we call mongrel forest, tall trees and thick brush underneath. Roy Blakely, Pathfinder
One of the most popular animals is a ten-year-old mongrel dog, whose owners had to move away.
He lies in the nest for tonight, taken from a stray mutt and her mongrel puppies.
The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.
But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. A Real-Life Renaissance Man
But he was the more astonished in noticing that her mustang was as distinct and peculiar as herself -- a mongrel mare of the extraordinary type known as a "pinto," or "calico" horse, mottled in lavender and pink, Arabian in proportions, and half broken! From Sand Hill to Pine
The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.
As for the rest -- the weaklings and the rejected, and the dark-pigmented things, the half-castes, the mongrel-bloods, and the dregs of long-conquered races -- how could they count? CHAPTER XXX
Through a variety of intricate techniques, including the "banana" kick, the "torpedo," the "floater" and the "mongrel," Aussie Rules players can punt with pinpoint accuracy from the acutest angles. An Aussie Who Rules at Football
Because they have lived alongside each other for so long, true Scottish wildcats and crossbred mongrels are difficult to tell apart.
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing the long acre presents an attractive picture and few of us have not, at some time, envied these nomadic people their happy ways of life.
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
His leer grew leerier -- the low, cunning leer, so peculiar to the London mongrel, that seems to say, "I am so intensely knowing; I am so very much all there;" and yet the leerer always remains in a dirty dress, always smokes the coarsest tobacco in the nastiest of pipes, and rides on a barrow to the end of his life. The Open Air
In Europe we're pretty much so mongrelised that we don't have an indigenous population.
Why, ain't he a bosker! "he enthusiastically exclaimed, as the hideously unprepossessing little mongrel stood on his hind legs and yelped in excited begging. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

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