Example sentences for: mongrel

How can you use “mongrel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • English is a mongrel tongue.

  • It is a venerable truism that English has long been a mongrel tongue with a hybrid heritage.

  • rice dog or Heinz 57 a mongrel.

  • Not so in France, where names are part of the patrimoine , the national heritage, and are not to be altered or forsaken lightly: a poet friend had to spend several years and a lot of money to get a missing s restored to the official version of his surname, so that now, instead of being B\acap\tard `mongrel' he's plain old Bastard and, what's more, is very happy about it.

  • Unmade Beds , Nicholas Barker's " 'real life' feature film," has proudly worn its mongrel status as a "directed" documentary of single life in the big city, employing, in the face of criticism, what amounts to a cackling-punk defiance.


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