mongrel

Example Sentences

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After that, the party kicked him to the curb like an unwanted mongrel.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026

The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Not so much dog days as the mongrel years.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2023

“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy