mongrel

The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022

Take, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2020

“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

He was—he is—a mongrel, but mostly setter, and he loved to hunt.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Mr. Wong peeled a kiwi and fed the better half of a sandwich to Little Knife, Little Black and Siu Mai, the three mongrels who live at the mill.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

But Fish and Wildlife did not police the domestic exchange of most captive-bred tigers until 2016, because they were considered mongrels with no conservation value.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2019

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’re mongrels in how we muse, how we speak, what we believe, who we are.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017

One of his brother’s mongrels had sounded the hellhom at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin