Sentence examples for just a mule from inspiring English sources

It probably won't look very good on a résumé, either, because most law schools will know you were just a mule".

But just having a mule isn't enough — you need them to be trained, and you need a handler.

And if that passivity catches up with them, Carlin's satellite-linked EKG machine or a robotic catheterization lab might be just a 20-minute mule ride away.

"They'll go to flee the passivity of the American lifestyle". And if that passivity catches up with them, Carlin's satellite-linked EKG machine or a robotic catheterization lab might be just a 20-minute mule ride away.

In the post-Civil War period, for instance, the formerly enslaved were allowed just forty acres and a mule, not as reparation but as a disingenuous homestead starter pack — salvaged timber for restorers without the family business.

It was also one of the few legacies that blacks could claim: no land, no laws, no forty acres and a mule — just "nigger," and the fraternity to be found in being a godless black man hitting the streets instead of the plantation.

"John Kerry just sat there, grinning like a mule eating briars".

"He was just a like a young mule, could do anything about the place," declared one employer.

Crooked elements in the C.I.A. are battling an arms dealer for control of the Zephyr, and Roy, needing to escape people who will kill him in order to get it, uses June as a mule, and then, presumably just because he likes having her around, drugs her again and again, carrying her off first to an island in the middle of nowhere, and then to Salzburg and Seville.

"You're just like your father... stubborn as a mule," yells Kate.

Last year, when I was writing about mules in the military, I went to a mule auction in Tennessee, and many of the owners told me they were selling their animals because they just couldn't afford to feed them anymore.