MONGREL in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for MONGREL, such as:

1. I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
2. Nevertheless he travelled with his manservant and his very neat car, this Dublin mongrel.
3. Far from protesting when he set his mongrel on a kitten, she worked hard at not seeing him.
4. Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
5. In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONGREL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mongrel
 n.  progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds; anything of mixed breed
Classic Sentence:
1  I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
2  To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
3  In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Far from protesting when he set his mongrel on a kitten, she worked hard at not seeing him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Nevertheless he travelled with his manservant and his very neat car, this Dublin mongrel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  She had more respect for Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such withering contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  "Once she had missed it and turned it away, any mongrel could take it," Ilagin was saying at the same time, breathless from his gallop and his excitement.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
8  He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
9  As they started, the dog yelped, and leaped at the horses' heads, till Kennicott took him into the buggy, where he nuzzled Carol's knees and leaned out to sneer at farm mongrels.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
2  The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.
3  You also have to imagine that in an odd mongrel accent of Sicilian born and raised, but learned English in a Scottish slum.