MULE in a Sentence

Learn MULE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

82 example sentences for MULE, such as:

1. A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.
2. He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.
3. A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
4. Then Cathleen flapped the bridle reins sharply and the old mule moved off.
5. And now there was not a trace of that girl in the stiff figure sitting on the mule.

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 Meanings and Examples of MULE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mule
 n.  a slipper that has no fitting around the heel
 n.  hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  As for the poor whites, they considered themselves well off if they owned one mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  As the artillery rumbled by, splashing mud into the watching crowds, a negro on a mule, riding close to a cannon caught her eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Alex, who still had boots, was walking and Tony, barefooted, was riding on the bare back of a mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  They had twelve chickens, two cows, five hogs and the mule they brought home from the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  The paddock, once full of frolicking colts and placid brood mares, was empty now except for one mule, the mule Mr. Tarleton had ridden home from the surrender.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  A damned mule, she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  It's an insult to the memory of my blooded darlings to have a mule in their paddock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  Her sidesaddle was strapped on as sorry a mule as Scarlett had ever seen, a flop-eared lame brute, and Cathleen was almost as sorry looking as the animal she rode.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  And now there was not a trace of that girl in the stiff figure sitting on the mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  Then Cathleen flapped the bridle reins sharply and the old mule moved off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  In it was an old woman with a lip full of snuff and a weather-beaten face under a drab sunbonnet, driving a dawdling old mule.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Ef you hadn't talked wid dem, dey wouldn had no chance ter treat me lak a mule or a Affikun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  A few saddle horses and mule teams were hitched outside the wooden awning of Bullard's store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  You been sendin us money right along and Ashley and me, well, we've paid taxes and bought the mule and seeds and what-all and a few hogs and chickens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  I met old man Merriwether this morning driving Rene's pie wagon and cursing the horse like an army mule skinner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence:
1  A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.
2  He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.