highbred

Example Sentences

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In the park, my mutt played on equal turf with highbred wolfhounds and common pit bulls.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2016

They acquired some highbred mares and started breeding.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2015

He described 19th-century “path-makers,” highbred gentlemen who spent summers armchair-engineering intricate paths around Mount Desert Island’s barren 1,500-foot peaks, glacial lakes and ironbound shoreline.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014

“It matches nothing and goes with everything,” added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2013

Ever since I can remember her she has been the quaintest mixture of the housewife and the woman of letters, with the highbred spirited lady as a basis for either character.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir