How to Use mongrel in a Sentence

mongrel

noun

• She owns several dogs, including a mongrel named Stella.
• The embrace of mongrel style is a recognition of the fact that nothing is pure.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
• Chained up now in that Tosa’s place was a mongrel with perhaps a faint strain of Jindo blood.
  — Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The center houses about 15 mongrel dogs and seven small packs of timber wolves, with two to three wolves in each pack.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
• In a sense, the painting that emerged in the early ’80s was mongrel and illegitimate.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• What do the words politicaster, mongrel, and braggart have in common?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
• Children loved him and residents regarded the mongrel as a neighborhood alarm system, friendly but loud.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• The last and extreme sign of a mongrel identity under constant transformation.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Teen Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
• Dewey works best letting the excitement of Wolfe’s career rise speak for itself — his daring reportage should shame this era’s media mongrels.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Sep. 2023
• Kelso was the first thoroughbred to fly in a jet and always traveled with his sidekick, a scruffy mongrel named Charlie Potatoes.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• After his election Emmanuel Macron adopted a mongrel, Nemo, from a rescue shelter.
  — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2021
• Who will buy this mongrel, the poor Alex with its lack of functionality, its short battery life (just six hours with the color screen in use) and its almost-iPad price-tag?
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2010
• There is also a peculiar effect whereby different books read by the same narrator can seem to agglutinate into a single mongrel super-book.
  — Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• The mongrel’s mother, separated from her baby, bleats piteously outside the couple’s house, until Maria, plagued by troubling dreams, drags the animal out into a field and shoots it.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
• This team is perhaps not quite so fluid, or quite suffocating in its possession, but Costa gives it a sense of mongrel Vicente Del Bosque’s sides at times lacked.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 20 June 2018
• By contrast, China’s political system—a mongrel of autocratic capitalism and democratic socialism—is not compatible with progress and growth in the long run.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• In between are a bunch of mongrel appliances that leave both humans and technology worse for wear, like a computer, in a 2024 photo by Sara Deraedt, that seems to be giving birth to a wet child.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
• No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• Koume, a 5-year-old mongrel, was handed an official letter of appreciation by local fire officials at a special ceremony last month for her valiant work at a horse riding club in Wakaba-ku, Chiba City.
  — Junko Ogura, CNN, 9 May 2023