mule
Example Sentences
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Thomas Jefferson, who owned a mule named “Dr. Slop,” mimicked Sterne’s style in friendly correspondence, and was among the many readers who liked to deploy the descriptor “Shandean.”
The flights are filled with an army of Cuban-American “mules” hauling huge bags that are closely inspected by Cuban customs officers.
He raised prize-winning mules there, and it would take a mule to get down the steep rocky trail to his place.
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Per the plan conceived by the Catalina Island Conservancy, professional hunters will shoot the island’s non-native mule deer on the ground over four to five years.
From Los Angeles Times
And that will set Tūtū off on how Dad is a stubborn mule.
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