The harmonica might still be mongrel, but in skillful hands it was capable of countless effects, actually suggested a well-balanced orchestra.
Which is another way of saying that the fundamental, defining questions of any life have been spun around and sometimes exploded in the modern, mongrel world.
Daz has written Oscar Wao (a mishearing of "Oscar Wilde") in a mongrel argot of his devising, a mixture of straight-up English, Dominican Spanish and hieratic nerdspeak crowded .
Penny Wong in The Canberra Times It is not a hybrid, it is a mongrel. It is not a credible alternative, it is a smokescreen,Senator Wong told the National Press Club.
Nathan Hindmarsh in Stuff.co.nz Daniel was my first coach at Parra, in SG Ball,Hindmarsh said. "I got on well with him. He's a good bloke and he's got that bit of mongrel in him, where, if you get out of line, you'll quickly hear about it."