How to Use mongrel in a Sentence

mongrel

noun

• She owns several dogs, including a mongrel named Stella.
• Chained up now in that Tosa’s place was a mongrel with perhaps a faint strain of Jindo blood.
  — Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The center houses about 15 mongrel dogs and seven small packs of timber wolves, with two to three wolves in each pack.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
• In a sense, the painting that emerged in the early ’80s was mongrel and illegitimate.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• Who will buy this mongrel, the poor Alex with its lack of functionality, its short battery life (just six hours with the color screen in use) and its almost-iPad price-tag?
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2010
• Kelso was the first thoroughbred to fly in a jet and always traveled with his sidekick, a scruffy mongrel named Charlie Potatoes.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Soon after, the Martins added another dog, a 2-month-old mongrel with a ripped ear who had been rescued off-base by soldiers who’d seen children picking on the pup.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022
• After his election Emmanuel Macron adopted a mongrel, Nemo, from a rescue shelter.
  — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
• This team is perhaps not quite so fluid, or quite suffocating in its possession, but Costa gives it a sense of mongrel Vicente Del Bosque’s sides at times lacked.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 20 June 2018
• Children loved him and residents regarded the mongrel as a neighborhood alarm system, friendly but loud.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• What do the words politicaster, mongrel, and braggart have in common?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• The last and extreme sign of a mongrel identity under constant transformation.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Teen Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
• In an entertainment world more cacophonous than a kennel, bringing back such an exceedingly wholesome creature is a kind of a test: Can the humble, wordless tricks of a mongrel born and bred in the '70s still charm young viewers?
  — Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Mind you, this is still something of a mongrel design: the rear of the Starling card is still set up in landscape, perhaps to retain compatibility and some level of familiarity.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 27 July 2018
• By contrast, China’s political system—a mongrel of autocratic capitalism and democratic socialism—is not compatible with progress and growth in the long run.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024