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How to use mullet in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Mullet means a fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes). Example: “I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.”

More sentences with mullet

  • I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.From the entry snip
  • I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.From the entry nineties
  • Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.2015, Scott Kleinberg, So Social, →ISBN. From the entry Throwback Thursday
  • So are his red mullet with wild lettuce and his toothsome sanguette of squab (incredibly juicy fowl!).1996, Douglas E. Easton, Richard E. Burke, “Clos de la Violette: Aix-en-Provence, France”, in The European Gourmet: The Grand Dining Tour…. From the entry sanguette
  • Or, three falcons close proper, belled gules, a mullet for difference.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 539. From the entry belled
  • There are mullet, gardies, mangrove jack and more.2021 January 4, Stephen Scourfield, “Cape crusaders on a journey of discovery”, in The West Australian. From the entry gardie
  • There is a general notion of how this stereotype dresses (flannos and ugg boots and mullet hairdos) and eats (pizza and Coke).2014, Susan Butler, The Aitch Factor. From the entry flanno
  • She saw the guy in the driver’s seat—bleached blond mullet, navy-blue baseball cap, shades, cigarette, a mountain range of acne on his cheeks.2014, James Patterson, Michael White, chapter 35, in Private Down Under, Vision, page 101. From the entry bleached blond
  • It was a Tuesday, ten-cent-hot-wings night, and the local Pagan's Saints gang had the 19th Hole overflowing with leathers, mullets, and ponytails.2012 January 5, Doc Hendley, Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry slammed
  • The mullets frightened by the scare line, leap wildly into the air and get caught either in the net or in the tangle of twigs.2003, NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers, Handbook on Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry scare line
  • Since before recorded history, if the hairstyle known as the mullet — business in the front, party in the back — is any indication.2001, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 46, number 4, page 24. From the entry business in the front, party in the back
  • Pearl mullets are the only species able to survive in the salty, alkaline waters of the lake but swim upstream to lay eggs in freshwater rivers.2018 May 25, Eric Hilaire, The Guardian. From the entry pearl mullet
  • Broken Social Scene, one of the coolest things that America's Hat (you may know it better as Canada) has exported since the mullet and maple syrup.2010, Brandi Panter, "Editor analyzes status of current music videos", The Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee), Volume 114, Issue 14…. From the entry America's Hat

Meaning of mullet

  1. noun A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
  2. noun Those of the genus Mullus within that family.
  3. noun A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).

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Questions about mullet in a sentence

How do you use mullet in a sentence?
Mullet is used as a noun. For example: “I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.”
What is a short sentence with mullet?
“There are mullet, gardies, mangrove jack and more.”
What does mullet mean?
Mullet means a fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mullet (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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