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How to use bung in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Bung means a stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. Example: “He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.”

Examples of bung by meaning

nounA stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle...

  • With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy
  • Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter

nounThe cecum or anus, especially of livestock but sometimes (slang) of humans.

  • Chitterlings are comprised of the hog's large intestine and may include the bung.1969, Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications for Edible By-products, page 9

nounA bribe.

  • It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs.2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, in the Guardian
  • Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain?2021 April 26, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Alexander Peter, Lena Schüler, ““Pay to Play” in the German Book Trade?”, in Publishing...

verbTo plug, as with a bung.

  • Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.2006, A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery

verbTo put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.

  • He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31
  • Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time and bunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters.1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN
  • And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do.2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies

adjectiveBroken, not in working order; damaged; injured.

  • I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206
  • Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 140
  • It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gone bung!1997, Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church, page 219

More sentences with bung

  • He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.From the entry bung up
  • I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.From the entry fluey
  • The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.From the entry bung up
  • Just bung it out in the trash can.From the entry bung out
  • They bung the tea leaves in the sink, instead of toddling out the back and emptying them on the maidenhair or in the gulley trap.1990, Barry Humphries, The Life & Death of Sandy Stone, page 83. From the entry gully trap
  • "Pat, let me have that keg," and the schoolteacher proceeded to hammer around the bung, in the way of the orthodox bungstarter.1943, Ernest Thompson Seton, “The Seton village press”, in The Preacher of Cedar Mountain, page 134. From the entry bungstarter
  • Most of us don't want to bung a microwave meal into the popty ping (only for it to come out hot enough to burn your mouth off).2023, Matt Pritchard, Dirty Vegan Fast and Easy. From the entry popty ping

Meaning of bung

  1. noun A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
  2. noun The cecum or anus, especially of livestock but sometimes (slang) of humans.
  3. noun A bribe.

Full definition of bung

Questions about bung in a sentence

How do you use bung in a sentence?
Bung is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.”
What is a short sentence with bung?
“Just bung it out in the trash can.”
What does bung mean?
Bung means a stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.

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