mule
Example Sentences
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These hunters, a unit of up to a dozen trained professionals employing rifles and bound by state regulations, are expected to kill the island’s non-native mule deer on the ground over four to five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The proposal to further strengthen the detection of mule accounts by limiting credits and enhancing due diligence , could also be effective, but will be resource-intensive and costly.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The return voyage lasted as long as a year, with cargo then transported across Mexico by mule before heading to Spain, completing a trade loop between the old and new worlds.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
On one side was the creek, on the other a ditch so deep that if you got in it you’d never get out without a mule team.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
