mule

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Recent Examples of mule Forget the typical raffia styles — this trend leans luxe with braided leather flats, mules, and sandals that feel more refined and versatile, taking you seamlessly from the office to a beachside escape. Laura Lajiness Kaupke, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Fun fact: Hundreds of thousands of pounds of granite boulders were hauled in using only mules, wagons, and ropes to create the building’s signature stone façade. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025 Made from premium organic cotton, these jeans and sure a comfy fit and pair well with a cute pair of flats or mules. Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2025 Cue to the Agnes line of mules and clogs, which come with shearling details, and the Victoria pump with a banana-like curved heel. Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mule
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Noun
  • The incident comes amid a string of coyote encounters and attacks in a Bellevue neighborhood, prompting state wildlife officials to lethally remove two coyotes in recent days.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
  • While everyone was busy capturing images of the coyote, off to our left deep in the woods, the Wapiti pack was bedded down and resting out of sight.
    Stan Tekiela, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The only other research dog breeder according to current USDA inventories is Oak Hill Genetics based in Franklin County in Illinois, which housed about 800 mongrel hound dogs in July.
    ByMeredith Wadman, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Herzog has chosen to retain one of Ibsen’s thorniest speeches, a diatribe about social evolution in which Stockmann talks of the difference between mongrel dogs and pedigree breeds as an analogy for the uneducated masses and the elite intelligentsia.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • His only real worry is keeping the donkey in focus.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Dozens of families quit their homes in Tel Al-Sultan heading northward to Khan Younis, some on foot, while others carried their belongings and children on donkey carts and rickshaws.
    Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Modern hybrids feature the best of both worlds, with better pest and disease resistance, high production and really good flavor.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Here are three of the top-mileage 2025 hybrids available, and my recent impressions. 2025 Toyota Prius (Up to 57 MPG Combined) Fuel Economy: The 2025 Toyota Prius achieves EPA ratings of up to 57 mpg in the city and 56 mpg on the highway for the front-wheel-drive LE trim.
    Josh Max, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Loughlin, who has posted consistent results all summer racing a 10-year-old jenny named Mary Margaret, was fortunate to have Hal Walter, a seven-time pack burro racing world champion, take her under his wing and share plenty of the tricks of the trade through the years.
    Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • In other words, humans will tire out long before the burro.
    Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024
  • Spencer’s sold a burro, imported from Mexico at a cost of $85 for a young male and $180 for a female foal.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Zoom in: High school junior Jett Hale, from Miami, Texas, fetched the reserve record with his steer, Mike, a stunning charolais crossbreed.
    Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
  • By selecting various friends in her wanderings, Sophie’s mom had spawned not just one sort of crossbreed, but several in that same litter.
    Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Will miss u, U Were Funny, crazy, pain in the ass, GREAT FRIEND, kids💜U. BRILLIANT as Mark Twain.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In theaters now showtimes The Studio Seth Rogen — who co-created this series alongside longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg, Frida Perez, and former Veep writers Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory — plays the head of a movie studio who finds new ways to make an ass of himself in every episode.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2025

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