mongrel

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

England will need their inner mongrel in Australia, Stokes included.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022

Whether it’s her notation of Archie’s blokish colloquialisms, Clara’s Anglo-Jamaican patois, the banter of two ancient Jamaican grouches or of second-generation Bengali teenagers, the mongrel texture of metropolitan life rises vividly from the page.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

She was a tough-looking mongrel, part Staffordshire terrier, part German shepherd—part wolf, for all Malcolm knew—and now, by the look of things, spoiling for a fight.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Emily Mortimer’s character in “Lovely and Amazing” keeps adopting ragged mongrels, until finally one bites her in the face.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

Although more than half of the dogs in the United States are mongrels, genetic studies tend to focus on pure-bred animals.

From Nature ● Jan. 25, 2016

Photograph: Twitter Like all scrappy mongrels, the Two-Tailed Dog has no verifiable birthdate and no precisely defined identity.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2016

Several scientists told me that, in some cases, conservation efforts might include families of species and subspecies across a diverse landscape, mongrels included.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2014

Our father’s room, formerly a servant’s, had a single window that looked out over an alley where mongrels fought.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García