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How to use bun in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bun means a small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced. Example: “She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.”

Examples of bun by meaning

nounA roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

  • loose bun; messy bun; tight bun
  • The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154

nounA buttock.

  • nice buns; tight buns

nounThe vagina.

  • How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless, page 5
  • I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?2015, Rachelle Ayala, Whole Latte Love, page 169
  • You know, hot dog in your bun.2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

verbTo form (the hair) into a bun.

  • Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas, page 39

verbTo shoot.

  • How you gonna bun me?2011, Jme, Mike Lowery

More sentences with bun

  • She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.From the entry stuff
  • Gorblimey, would you ’ave a butcher’s at the bristols on this bird in the currant bun!From the entry butcher's
  • Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.From the entry hot dog
  • The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.From the entry patty
  • Her parents were surprised to learn that she had a bun in the oven.From the entry have a bun in the oven
  • Hot cross buns contain chopped candied fruit.From the entry candied
  • Her lucky pen coinstantiates a writing implement, a souvenir, and a hair stick to hold her hair bun!From the entry coinstantiate
  • The two girls who were camping went to the hitching post to buy some hot dogs and buns for the wiener roast.From the entry hitching post
  • I hate your work parties: you always talk shop with your mates and leave me sat like piffy on a rock bun.From the entry piffy on a rock bun
  • There it was, the frikadelle, inside a sliced sesame bun, sunk in on itself by that point.2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 31. From the entry frikadelle
  • Agnesse was a short and thin woman, her gray hair tied back in a tight bun.2021 April 28, Ryan Kirk, Band of Broken Gods, Waterstone Media, →ISBN. From the entry Agnesse
  • Push the snipped end of the piping bag through each slit into the bun.2021 September 30, The Bake Off Team, The Great British Bake Off: A Bake for all Seasons: The official 2021 Great British Bake Off book…. From the entry chouxnut
  • The toasted bun can be slathered in butter or filled with cheese to create a cheesymite toastie.2021 December 30, Erina Starkey, “Who needs dried fruit when you can have cheesymite hot cross buns”, in Delicious.com.au, archived from…. From the entry cheesymite
  • Anpan was a sweet Japanese bun filled with anko, a yummy red-bean paste.2020, Shauna Holyoak, Kazu Jones and the Comic Book Criminal, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN. From the entry anpan
  • But this was fun on a bun with all the trimmings.2020, Patrick Sheane Duncan, A Private War. From the entry fun on a bun
  • He had a man bun, pseudo-Viking style, and was wearing a tool belt and a harness.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry man bun
  • Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware.2018 March 13, Bruce Holbert, Whiskey: A Novel, MCD, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry spatula
  • You know while I was here working my buns off he was out somewhere playing the hot-shot.2014, J L Daniels, Mirror Opposites, page 345. From the entry work one's buns off
  • The penny bun can be found in many regions and in a variety of woodland.2013, Pelle Holmberg, Hans Marklund, The Pocket Guide to Wild Mushrooms, →ISBN. From the entry penny bun
  • The lobster roll (market price) packed hunks of lobster into a hotdog bun with lettuce.2013 July 26, Ling-Mei Wong, “What to eat in Cape Cod: Skipper Restaurant”, in Sampan, Boston, Mass.: Asian American Civic Association…. From the entry hotdog bun
  • One day, I had a traditional white bun (mantou) stuffed with dried pork (rousong).2011, Hyperink Writers, My Tiger Mom & Me. From the entry rousong
  • The debate over public service funding turned into a bun fight, says the communications minister.2008 November 24, Jane Martinson, “'We've had enough thinktankery'”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 21 Aug 2014. From the entry bun fight
  • You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray). From the entry have a bun in the oven
  • Elsa's skirt was splashed with wet and her bun was beginning to unstrand.2004, Esther Freud, The Sea House. From the entry unstrand
  • Two halves of a burger bun, hard and stale and burgerless, crusty and forgotten.2003, Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig. From the entry burgerless
  • She wore her brown hair severely bunned for a gal with such expensive tastes in stink-pretty.2000, Tabor Evans, Longarm 257: Longarm and the Nevada Bellydancer. From the entry stink pretty
  • Surely, not all hamburger buns are missliced, so why don't they slice them higher?2000, David Feldman, Life's Imponderables, page 33. From the entry misslice
  • Played baseball & cooked out; hot dogs & burgers & buns on the grill.1999, Red Jordan Arobateau, “Tales of Transman: Part II”, in Autumn Changes, [Oakland, Calif.]: Red Jordan Press, published 2010, →ISBN…. From the entry transparent
  • He′d give the kids buns and let you ride for a couple of stops.1999, Jim Keays, His Master's Voice: The Masters Apprentices: The bad boys of sixties rock ′n′ roll, page 3. From the entry happy little vegemite
  • She had been a handsome young woman, with bunned hair and a hardy smile.1997, Mary McGarry Morris, A Dangerous Woman, page 46. From the entry bunned
  • He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun. From the entry stupa
  • The rain is coming down harder, making the hot-dog buns soggy.1991, Aethlon, page 130. From the entry hot-dog bun

Meaning of bun

  1. noun A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
  2. noun A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
  3. noun Any bread roll.

Full definition of bun

Questions about bun in a sentence

How do you use bun in a sentence?
Bun is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.”
What is a short sentence with bun?
“nice buns; tight buns”
What does bun mean?
Bun means a small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bun (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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