mongrels
- plural of mongrel.
Example Sentences
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Emily Mortimer’s character in “Lovely and Amazing” keeps adopting ragged mongrels, until finally one bites her in the face.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
We drew a small crowd of local spectators: Workmen, sea gulls and neighborhood mongrels watched quizzically as we tried on life jackets and adjusted our kayaks’ seats and rudders.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2018
We’re mongrels in ways that might not be obvious from a photograph.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017
So Karlsson and her colleagues, including Jesse McClure, a former dog trainer for the US Marine Corps, decided to collect data from mongrels as well as pure-bred dogs and to crowdsource the data collection.
From Nature ● Jan. 25, 2016
Dogs barked at his heels wherever his long-legged stride carried him, and he snarled back at them, sometimes even spitting, which only made the flea-bitten mongrels yap more hysterically.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
