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
And this highbred condition of affairs was the more repulsive, from the fact that the greater number of those disposers of office and dividers of empire were among the emptiest of mankind.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
