Example sentences for: pedigreed

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

  • In a NYT op-ed, author and dog lover Caroline Knapp fans the flames of New York's dog wars, lambasting snobbish humans who only want properly sized, pedigreed dogs in their co-ops.

  • Clark's peers are suspicious of his pedigreed background and political connections; worse, NATO's half-hearted military strategy smells to them of another Vietnam.

  • Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"


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