MONGREL in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for MONGREL, such as:
1. I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
2. Nevertheless he travelled with his manservant and his very neat car, this Dublin mongrel.
3. Far from protesting when he set his mongrel on a kitten, she worked hard at not seeing him.
4. Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
5. In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
2. Nevertheless he travelled with his manservant and his very neat car, this Dublin mongrel.
3. Far from protesting when he set his mongrel on a kitten, she worked hard at not seeing him.
4. Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
5. In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
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Meanings and Examples of MONGREL
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mongrel
n. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
n. derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
Classic Sentence:
1 I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
2 To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger.
3 In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
4 Far from protesting when he set his mongrel on a kitten, she worked hard at not seeing him.
5 Nevertheless he travelled with his manservant and his very neat car, this Dublin mongrel.
6 She had more respect for Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such withering contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.
7 "Once she had missed it and turned it away, any mongrel could take it," Ilagin was saying at the same time, breathless from his gallop and his excitement.
8 He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
9 As they started, the dog yelped, and leaped at the horses' heads, till Kennicott took him into the buggy, where he nuzzled Carol's knees and leaned out to sneer at farm mongrels.
Example Sentence:
1 Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
2 The English word " television " is a mongrel because " tele " comes from Greek and " vision " from Latin.
3 You also have to imagine that in an odd mongrel accent of Sicilian born and raised, but learned English in a Scottish slum.