How To Use Mutt In A Sentence

They lived sluttishly in poor houses, where they eat a great deal of beef and mutton, and drank good ale in a brown mazard; and their very kings were but a sort of farmers. Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
Passengers' eyes divert to Lauren and they begin to mutter incoherently about her.
Muttering under his breath, the soldier extended the spyglass, increasing the magnification of the instrument.
Your brand of beer, the artwork on your walls, your choice of dog - a pure-bred poodle as opposed to a mutt - are all potential status details.

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Here the red meat said, scilicet beef, mutton and pork.
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
‘I'm coming,’ he muttered, under his breath as he pulled on his bathrobe.
‘You didn't tell me I was going to have to cross-dress for this,’ I muttered.
I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.
He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
Before she could announce me, I retrieved the coat, muttered a few feeble excuses, and ran.
'I never want to come here again,' he muttered to himself.
I'm getting a de-rection," mutters Barney, aghast at her decline. The New Season in Review: Monday Madness
From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
Walk in and confess to that mutt, mac taylor?
I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair.
I don't get your confusion if I mutter under my breath about the enormity of your shelter, or your look of dry indignation if I run and buddy up with you under your brolly - there's room enough for two, no?
He spoke in a mutter.
Our specialities today are beef steak with onion and mutton chop.
OK, it's just a dopey article about some numbnuts, muttonheaded celebrity campaigning for today's top liberal jerk. Latest Articles
Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
They heard him mutter,'One Hundred and Five, North Tower;'.
His face and hands were smutted by the coal.
So saying, he dismissed Roland Graeme, through a different door from that by which he had entered, signed a cross, and pronounced a benedicite as they parted, and then, still muttering to himself, retired into the garden, and locked the door on the inside. The Abbot
‘Thanks a lot,’ Miryoku muttered, walking past his brother and whapping him in the head with his book.
Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers. Times, Sunday Times
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
'Now this beats a', 'muttered his wife to herself;' however, I shall be obedient for a time; but if I dinna ken what all this is for before the morn by sunket-time, my tongue is nae langer a tongue, nor my hands worth wearing. ' Stories of Mystery
So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
The only sound to break the silence of the night was the soft mutter of my engine.
My birth mother hugged me and muttered something in my ear. Times, Sunday Times
The country began to show a few donkeys and large flocks of sheep and goats; the muttons have a fine "tog," and sell for three dollars and a half. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
It enjoyed beef and mutton best. Caves and Cave Life
(`More likely VD ," Essie's brother had muttered and had been soundly shushed. FAIRYLAND
A Nisa spokesman said it changed suppliers after the discovery of beef in mutton products. The Sun
The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
In a hideout near Traversara, the story went, he and five of his companions dallied with ten whores while they ate “maccheroni and gnocchi, lamb and chicken, mutton and focaccia studded with pork fat, biscuits and ring-cakes with rosolio and zabaglione, jam tart and whipped cream.” Delizia!
He settled back, shut his eyes, began to mutter.
The foods selected were lean pork, mutton, beef, peanut, soybean, red bean, mung bean and cowpea (vigna).
I sat there sullenly staring at the roast mutton and potatoes.
I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.
A white couscous, with mutton and chicken and turnips and carrots. Times, Sunday Times
The author explains that the washed buds can be stewed or can be used with mutton in a bredie.
He conferred again, and I tried to picture the other side of the screen, with the Rani, sharp-faced and thin in her silk shawl, muttering her instructions to him, and puzzled to myself what the odd persistent noise was that I could hear above the soft pipes of the hidden orchestra - a gentle, rhythmic swishing from beyond the screen, as though a huge fan were being used. Fiancée
‘Next time knock before you come in’ I muttered, my face still beet red as I dried the plates.
Where's my wife? he muttered almost inaudibly, his face buried in the pillow as she cleaned his waste from underneath him. Waiting for His Wife
I followed him inside the rambling barbed wire, shaking my head and muttering “Cayuse?” Silver Zombie
Thereafter, when any cat came into view, the dog would retreat to his doghouse and, I suppose, peruse his collection of Playmutts (last month's centerfold, a fox terrier, is really hot by the way). Weird Things
So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
‘Lewis,’ he said in a mutter, barely acknowledging my presence.
These politic enclosures for paltry mutton, makes more rebellion in the flesh, than all the provocative electuaries doctors have uttered since last jubilee. The White Devil
I still say we should just fry them all, she muttered.
It specialises in ‘bush tucker’, so try the Emu pate and the kangaroo steak, which tastes like lean mutton.
A tech knew the appropriate litanies to mutter.
Sounds similar to the sauce for mutter panner (obviously without the peas or paneer) ... Chipotle ketchup changes everything | Homesick Texan
Companies that trampled over shareholders' right of first refusal over new stock would do so at their peril, they muttered darkly. Times, Sunday Times
NIV what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
Pork and mutton should be kept in cold storage.
You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
If you are a Muttrah merchant you must be equally versatile at least in rupees, annas, naya peis, dollars, pounds, baizas, dinars.
The hairs on its chin muffle its muttering, and its skin is moist, laughable, and it's big. Goat
He muttered something under his breath, and started planning his next plot to kill her.
Graham is still swotting up on bicycles and has got to the stage where he's constantly muttering technical-sounding buzzwords.
He held his hand in the air, muttering Swahili curses as I wound the fabric round.
But all that changed after Jason grew out his mutton chops, bought a straw hat, and started sleeping with Neil's girlfriend!
Whereas our analogues on the right used to effuse over how W. was doing a helluva job even as the country went to hell, we mutter or post disparaging comments about how Obama has let us down. Mark Klempner: Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul
He communed with himself for a moment, and then muttered indignantly: THE SEA FARMER
She basically went all to pieces and I spent more than an hour angrily muttering and refolding every piece of linen in the closet so that when I was finished, it looked like this.
An experienced muttonbirder can locate, snatch, and bag the occupant of a burrow every 5–6 minutes and might net a cool thirty thousand dollars in thirty days of hunting.
The ending really is one where you stare at the TV for about 5 minutes after its over and mutter gibberish.
Muttering some more apologies, which Rose echoed, he went with her down the road. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
I muttered and began to adjust the black leather jacket and stuffed it in my bag, before overlooking the boxes.
The subsequent retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan, and that of Lasith Malinga from Test cricket, marks the end of a glorious era in Sri Lankan cricket. Mahela Jayawardene: 'I still get flashbacks. We're lucky to be alive'
It seems that because burrowing can cause landslips in quarries, residents of Portland instead call the creatures underground mutton or furry things.
No wonder the guy muttering the prayers over the burial plot has a wireless phone receiver permanently fixed to his right ear. Times, Sunday Times
The foods selected were lean pork, mutton, beef, peanut, soybean, red bean, mung bean and cowpea (vigna).
The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb.
Gro ? mutter : Ich wei ? auch nicht, wann der Regen aufh ? ren wird.
I taught myself to swim in Leg of Mutton pond, skated on Pen Ponds when they froze, sledged in Petersham Park when it snowed, built dams across the brook, and learnt to ride a bike on the path to Bog Lodge.
I can see "purring," and even "muttering," which brings to mind bits of charred wood falling with little thunks. Languagehat.com: MURMURING?
Beyond shakings of heads and dark mutterings, I can get nothing out of Wada or the steward. CHAPTER XXXI
And hotels cannot afford to leave out aloo gobi, aloo mutter, paneer butter masala, chana masala and dal fry from their list of curries.
There where barbecue mutton - chops for lunch, huge , savory hunks of meat sizzling like the devil charcoal.
The crowd began to mutter angrily, the glowing embers of their ancient prejudices that had been viciously stoked by the near murder of their King were being fanned to fury so easily by the power of the monarch's simple words.
Gro ? mutter : Ja , wir k ? nnen dann im Taxi die Tiere besichtigen ?
Veal and mutton too have decreased in per capita consumption during the past five years.
Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
"Thon is one buck eejit," one of the men muttered.
… People in the New England states say stricter leash laws, harsher winters and spay/neuter laws make it difficult to find an average mutt to make a good pet. Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading
But Woking, I'm sorry to say, seems to have accepted this slight without even the mildest mutter of protest.
The main traditional foods of the Mongols include beef, mutton, and milk products, supplemented by grain and vegetables.
So I took my time finishing the job, heaved myself upright and turned to face the source of the muttering.
He seemed to be studying up on something, and he would mutter to himself from time to time.
Gro? mutter : Nun warte doch , wir haben keine Eile, Herzchen. Ich muss mich noch anziehen.
Randolphe muttered some indistinct response; and was again sinking to For - getfuJnesS, when Monta*iba«, with a tran - sient exertion of strength, rudely shook, him, and sternly bade him rise. The confessional of Valombre
After all, if you wander past many licensed premises in the early hours of the morning you are likely to hear subdued mutterings which the more feeble-minded are likely to interpret as ghosts.
She has been a muttonbirder since she was four and has missed very few seasons on Ernest Island.
Ralph muttered a word of thanks and sipped from the kind of bendable plastic straw that you can only find in hospitals and nursing homes. The Wind in the Woods
The Americans muttered darkly about damage to the relationship. Times, Sunday Times
‘Oh, you impudent child,’ Mrs. Hastings muttered through clenched teeth.
I pretended not to hear what he muttered under his breath. Times, Sunday Times
There's a guilty pleasure in witnessing his obvious discomfort and huffy asides to the camera - ‘four hours’ he mutters darkly while getting fitted for a swish suit.
Saturday's final will feature a tantalizing showdown between Tendulkar, the leading run scorer in cricket history, and Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, the sport's all-time leading wicket-taker. Billingsley Shows Love for Los Angeles
The chef mutters something about being in shock.
He dusted the edge of his desk with an index finger and muttered darkly into the phone. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
He muttered as he reached for his bag and pulled out a yellow legal pad covered in scrawled writing.
Howell was muttering threats and imprecations.
‘You're awfully late, dear,’ Prince Alfonso was heard to mutter in English.
Every now and again, a snaky comment would erupt from his lips but there was always a quick apology while he muttered something that she couldn't ever hear.
Two colliers, besmutted wretches, plodding homeward from the 'pit' which is half a mile away. A Life's Morning
In some places hummus is topped with cooked lamb mince, which is utterly delicious - though mutton is often used instead, and to the uninitiated this can be a rather strong flavour.
He scowled at the now-empty bottle, shook it, and muttered something.
Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo, at Marseilles, what one besmutted red-bearded corn-ear is this which they cut; -- one gross Man, we mean, with copper-studded face; plenteous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile-colour? The French Revolution
Now all the pig family are pink, or pink with black spots, but this pig child was smutty black all over; when it had been popped into a tub, it proved to be Yock-yock. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
I had to quietly excuse myself from a Vinyasa class with mutterings of trick knee.
The button utters in mutter, "The butterfly likes the buttered earthnut/ peanut.
The guy put his head down and stormed on, his vicious racist rantings now dimmed to a mutter, his hate-filled words completely stripped of any power.
Still, we mellow out round the fire, toasting marshmallows and muttering into the gloom.
The old women called at houses selling lucky charms and muttering curses if they found a door slammed in their faces. LOST SUMMER
Beef, mutton, pork and venison were common meats, and communities close to the coast could expect to widen their diets with fish and shellfish.
Next came a course of chicken in rich sauces followed by another course of either beef, mutton or ham.
He likes to eat mutton which was seasoned with garlic.
Fact is, his grogginess is of a piece with his intensely absurd comedy, the enervated mutterings of one worn out by too much hard thinking.
The usual food was mutton swimming in fat, in which maggots were commonly seen. Times, Sunday Times
I heard both murmurs of approval and mutters of discontent.
His friend began muttering in German and what I possibly believe is that they were talking about me.
When the game was over, Drew stalked off, muttering obscenities under his breath.
"It must be my irresistible charm, " I muttered to myself amusingly.
Although the Mutton would never sanction wearing long johns as outer wear, they are peerless underwear for "weather events" such as the cold snap we have all endured of late.
The yellow youth in the grass skirt was swaying beneath a mango tree, muttering to himself. Times, Sunday Times
The story above the basement held the millstones and the "smutting" machine, for cleaning dirty wheat. Jan of the Windmill
Sarkozy was insulted by a member of the crowd, and with the cameras still rolling muttered, "Casse-toi, pauvre con" -- which basically translates as buzz off, jackass. Elizabeth Bard: Paris Notebook: A Day at the Salon d'Agriculture
He muttered, looking insolently at the flooding shelter as the torrential waters rose.
Robbie Conal, who had Lobdell as his graduate advisor at Stanford in the late '70s says that "Frank would mutter at me, sometimes wearily, sometimes conspiratorially, every time we were together for more than half an hour; 'Nothing worth anything is easy.' John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy"
He was muttering unconnected phrases, like ‘make you love me’ ‘dog… no, mine’ it was insane jabber.
She began to mutter incoherently.
"It's not by choice, " he muttered, and crushed his empty plastic cup in his hands.
It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem.
The man obviously was a superior being, because other than a muttered "whew" he showed no sign of discomfort. Outfoxed Diary Entry
o 'that kin', be 't as mad an 'pranksome as ever sic ploy could be, is to be made mention o' aside the things at was mutit (muttered) o ''s brither. Malcolm
"Shut up," she muttered before taking a quick chug of the soda.
White soop, turbit, and lobstir sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
Lord Grade could estimate the cost of your clothes at a glance (adding 50\% for overheads and a 50\% markup), having been in the schmutter business before deciding that there was a brighter future dancing the Charleston. The Guardian World News
The word Reds seems to strike a sour note with Will, and he mutters under his breath, “I think Reds is the worst nickname of any team.” WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
These aren't just the mutterings of an old curmudgeon.
Sometimes it is your individual heart, as you hum a lucky tune or mutter a childhood prayer. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not as stupid as you mutts in this alley make me out to be.
Little wonder there are dark mutterings that some in the elite are already planning for the new drachma. Times, Sunday Times
Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times
But like the double-dyed mutt I must be, I couldn't find anything. Hercule Poirot's Casebook
‘Then you owe me, buster,’ she muttered as she stood up from the bed.
But he admits that his own mutton chops were not really up to the job. The Sun
Muttering how far behind he was with correspondence he moved towards his study. IN LOVE AND WAR
I longed to get a steady rhythm going and muttered impatiently that we had a mountain to climb.
Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
Mr Morrigon's secretary was at her side muttering platitudes about the weather and asking her how many sugars she'd like in her coffee.
Charity muttered something, raised her wand, and send electrical blue sparks towards the dragon.
Michael Gove , for example could besport himself in the manner of a free marketer and if you called him he would mutter suggestively about tax cuts working into a frenzy of anti Islamic legislation. Political Adverts Should be Allowed on TV
Lactobacillus casei and micrococcus roseus were used as starter culture to produce fermented sausage with mutton and studied the physico-chemistry property of sausages.
I like to keep my food quite traditional, the only time that I use spices is when I make a braai, when I add piri piri and curry powder to fresh fish or mutton.
But it is no use muttering about Luddism when people are simply asking how society will gain from new medical technologies or biobanks.
She put a leg of mutton into the oven to roast it for supper.
At about the same time thousands of Austrians with unattractive mutton chops, beer bellies and thick sunglasses will mourn their leader.
I love shopping and my house is full of schmutter. Times, Sunday Times
Mariko, looking over the detailed itinerary, muttered.
What an ugly mutt!
When Jana emerged from the stall, she was tucking her white shirt into the regulation plaid skirt and was muttering harshly under her breath.
The mutter of sinister threats and portents was already to be heard.
I thought the cat equivalent of a mutt was a mog/moggy. Im N Ur Snow, Eetin Ur Frozin Extremities « Whatever
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‘Might be the last time I get to see this beaut country’ he muttered.
It was a muttered accusal as Rachel made to walk past him rather than waste any more of her time trying to make him see her side of it. Separate Cabins
In the greenhouse test the number of plants showing smutted ears (on any of the tillers) after 3 months was recorded; in the field the percentage of smutted tillers was determined among 100-200 tillers sampled.
Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
Once, with a muttered imprecation, Kama leaped away, a stick of firewood in hand, and clubbed apart a tangle of fighting dogs. Chapter IV
Then he concluded by shaking his head and muttering, "Tough place. Christianity Today
‘We don't know it's her,’ muttered Ross sulkily.
Instead of yelling back or muttering cusses at her father, Jazlyn just balled her hands into fists.
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Their mutton was a little cheaper than the mutton from the Colonies. Rambles Through the British Empire
Mutter Angst und Vater Schmerz.
If Thorne had been more aware of the niceties of American society, he would have muttered something like `Ivy League" to himself. UNTO THE GRAVE
People would run from across the street to try and grab a dry space among the crowd, who were muttering to themselves and shuffling from foot to foot while they waited for the storm to abate.
The plastic tablecloths with gorgeous floral prints and the aroma and smoke from the roast mutton kebabs combine to make you feel this is an echt Xinjiang restaurant.
One wrote: 'Where did this idea that mumbling and muttering makes a drama more realistic? Times, Sunday Times
Mood index: slightly horrified: early morning mutterings from the AP newswire: August 3rd, 2005
The word `barn" dominated his mind: he fixed on it, muttered it like an incantation. IN LOVE AND WAR
The word has even appeared in the funny pages where Dilbert muttered a disconsolate "frack" - the original spelling before producers of the current show changed it to a four-letter word - after a particularly dumb order from his evil twit of a boss. Gazette.com :
He was heard muttering in a barely audible voice.
On one of the last few days of the hunt, luck ran out for the mutton-birder.
Then he fell back on the bed and tossed about as though he was in the throes of a poison, muttering through clenched teeth.
Ancient memories of treachery and betrayed trust screamed in warning at the very thought, and Bahzell had muttered of gods and wizards while the dream was upon him, even if he couldn't recall the words to his waking mind.
They mutter and mumble and soldier on. Times, Sunday Times
Weel, weel," muttered David, as they continued their walk through the miserable region, "I've gane an 'gie'd her a' the siller I had i 'my pouch. The Garret and the Garden
Holy bosh ,' Wesley muttered, rapidly reeling the rope back in. BEHINDLINGS

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