mongrel

Example Sentences

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After that, the party kicked him to the curb like an unwanted mongrel.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026

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

Bruce, "the rescue centre mongrel", sadly died from the tumour at the age of 12.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2024

“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

Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient | walls of many-colored brick.

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