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How to use mutt in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Mutt means a mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin. Example: “I asked Shane how a mutt like Doc could lasso someone like Shanteel.”

More sentences with mutt

  • I asked Shane how a mutt like Doc could lasso someone like Shanteel.2008, Tom Renz, Angels Hour, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry happy button
  • Let's just say I'm the muttliest mutt this side of the dog pound.2008, J. D. Warren, Crate & Peril, page 254. From the entry muttly
  • He enters the shop with his dog, a tough, stumpy, well-fed mutt.1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry bulldoggishly
  • We call them mutts, mongrels, and Heinz 57s.2018, Kim Brophey, “Genetics”, in Meet Your Dog: The Game-changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog’s Behavior (The Official Dog L.E.G.S.…. From the entry Heinz 57
  • Gypsy was a wonderful mutt, a ‘pavement special’ as we say, who had a heart as big as Africa.2012 July, Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, chapter 3, in The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species…. From the entry pavement special
  • Little beknownst to either of them, they were being followed by a very clumsy, wet, and muddy-pawed mutt, the Cassidy hound.2011, Edward F. Cassidy, Looking Back on Tomorrow: A Life Story, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry beknownst
  • Sophie was the needier of our two mutts―mother and son golden retrievers we'd brought with us from Connecticut.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.25. From the entry needier
  • The phrase "all bark, no bite" could have been coined for our mutts; couple of wimps, those two.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.28. From the entry all bark and no bite
  • When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.2001, Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, Dogs, page 69. From the entry crossbreed
  • Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 251. From the entry crab
  • Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.1973, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago, Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Albany, N.Y.…. From the entry kerchieved
  • A chorkie is a dash of Chihuahua and a dollop of Yorkshire terrier — in other words, a mutt, a mongrel, a mixed breed.2009 June 21, Matthew Margolis, “Reasons not to leave your dog in the car”, in The Sunday Star, page C6. From the entry chorkie
  • “Mutt is a horrible, insensitive, mean thing to call any dog.” Off she stalked with her sheepadoodle, or whatever his precise and proper designation was.2009, Steven Winn, “The Lake, the Beach and the Bluff”, in Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, New York, N.Y.: Harper…. From the entry sheepadoodle
  • The block did not have anything so old-fashioned as a regular foot cop to tell these mutts to take it on the arches.2007 October 23, Michael Daly, “Drugs sold in Bronx church during mass”, in New York Daily News. From the entry take it on the arches
  • Mutt had taken it as a matter of course that she had been invited to this interservice conference, and no one thought to gainsay her.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry interservice
  • Mutt Malvern stands with a wicked blade in one hand and, in the other, a three-pronged leister spear of the sort used to poach fish or birds.2011, Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races. From the entry poach

Meaning of mutt

  1. noun A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
  2. noun A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
  3. noun A person from the United States.

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Questions about mutt in a sentence

How do you use mutt in a sentence?
Mutt is used as a noun. For example: “I asked Shane how a mutt like Doc could lasso someone like Shanteel.”
What is a short sentence with mutt?
“We call them mutts, mongrels, and Heinz 57s.”
What does mutt mean?
Mutt means a mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

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