high-bred
Example Sentences
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Alaskan huskies are a high-bred dog with one purpose: to be an efficient sled dog.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2017
On race days he vans to the track from nearby Tropical Park, his mane still uncombed, straw in his tail, a ragged pauper among high-bred thoroughbreds.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the high-bred fright of a New Bedford snob, Enid insists that Tip "drop" gentle Jim and the menagerie of phonies he has collected in his house down the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was riding high-bred horses now, and he was really in the money.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only ones who even irritated him were the cavaliers, the high-bred, feathery, courtly ones who spoke like Englishmen and treated a man like dirt.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
