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How to use dung in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, verb

Dung means manure; animal excrement. Example: “The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.”

Examples of dung by meaning

nounManure; animal excrement.

  • The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59

verbTo fertilize with dung.

  • She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections

More sentences with dung

  • The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.From the entry scatological
  • The dung beetle had lamellate antennae.From the entry lamellate
  • A lioness on the prowl made for a tense dung safari.2015, Caitlin O’Connell, “Baying at a Testosterone-Filled Moon”, in Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry musthy
  • Animal dung can carry parasites and other germs that can make livestock sick.2014, Emma Carlson Berne, Dung Beetles: Stronger than Ten Men! (Animal Superpowers), New York, N.Y.: PowerKiDS Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry dung beetle
  • Farmers and ranchers need dung beetles to keep their pastures clean.2014, Emma Carlson Berne, Dung Beetles: Stronger than Ten Men! (Animal Superpowers), New York, N.Y.: PowerKiDS Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry dung beetle
  • Chen of National Museum of Natural Science for providing dung samples from Liuchiao.2008, Jong-How Chang, Yei-Zeng Wang, “Two Species of Kernia (Plectomycetes) in Taiwan”, in Taiwania, volume 53, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Liuchiao
  • The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Running the Business”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester…. From the entry bonfire
  • The letter she sent me stank of assafoetida or devil’s dung.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford. From the entry asafoetida
  • Some magical powers remain in the dusty dung of the bat.1986, Steven Estvanki, James Marciniak, Steven Marciniak, Captif d’Yvoire and Beyond the Silvered Pane (Tunnels and Trolls), Ealing…. From the entry spell casting
  • Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.1944, Emily Carr, “Meg the Worker”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry barb
  • Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung.1901, Maxim Gorky, The Man Who Was Afraid. From the entry dvornik
  • Using a mixture of dirt, water and cow dung, Mommy lepayed (plastered the ground) until it was smooth.2021, Erma Jacob, A Dougla’s Tale: Growing up Inter-Racial in Inter-Cultural Flanagin Town, Trinidad. From the entry lepay
  • In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 236. From the entry assegai
  • The aphodiids dominate dung in northern temperate zones.2017, Richard Jones, Call of Nature: The Secret Life of Dung. From the entry aphodiid
  • An hour ago, I had taken the truck out to collect the musthy Smokey’s dung in the pitch-black.2015, Caitlin O’Connell, “Baying at a Testosterone-Filled Moon”, in Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry musthy
  • The rest was a hellbrew, sinkpit, gasping, gagging, ancient dung history of rot and wet and corruption and decay.1994 October–December, The Angry Corrie, number 20, page 13. From the entry hellbrew
  • Tell the truth, I'd gotten so used to the jof jof dung that I didn't notice it anymore.1991, Mike Sirota, Bicycling Through Space and Time. From the entry tell the truth
  • Other species, such as those of Euptychia, are found sipping at leaking treesap, rotting fruit, muddy spots or on dung.1975, William H. Howe, David L. Bauer, The Butterflies of North America, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry treesap
  • It is an Augean stables, even down to dung on some of the ceilings – hard going, discouraging, exhausting and tough.1953, Humphry Osmond, chapter 1953, in Cynthia Carson Bisbee et al., editors, Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and…. From the entry Augean stables
  • Paper restrictions and the usual trade dung."1948, Pierre Sichel, Such as We, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 339. From the entry throw the bull
  • There has never been any substantial advantage shown by the heavily dunged plot over the lightly dunged plot.1903, Bernard Dyer, “Fertilisers for Market Garden Crops”, in Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, volume 9, page 478. From the entry dunged
  • In the dry season, when the Mara becomes narrower and shallower, certain stretches of it become especially thick with hippos—and their dung.2018 May 16, Ed Yong, “Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mara
  • The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke.2011, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Blood Games: Saint-Germain: Book Three. From the entry gaggingly
  • The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135. From the entry spagyric
  • And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry chyle
  • Neglect to remove the "balling" of horse dung or soiled bedding, tan, or sawdust from the shod foot is a fruitful source.1907 October 8, S.S. Cameron, “Diseases of Farm Animals”, in The Journal of Agriculture, volume 5, page 636. From the entry balling
  • During the first three seasons the size and weight of the asparagus grown was about the same on both the dunged plots.1903, Bernard Dyer, “Fertilisers for Market Garden Crops”, in Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, volume 9, page 478. From the entry dunged
  • It was once thought that the first humans in the Balearics had domesticated the mouse-goat, as what appeared to be pens filled with dung were found in some caves.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 249. From the entry mouse-goat
  • Indeed, the association with bird droppings may even be the origin of the word: Some evidence suggests that "mistletoe" comes from Anglo-Saxon for "dung on a twig."2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25…. From the entry mistletoe
  • Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150. From the entry Hazara
  • Species living in dung are probably of greater importance because they prey on pestiferous flies infesting accumulations of animal waste in cattle pastures and poultry farms.2006, Arthur V. Evans, Field Guide to Beetles of California, page 80. From the entry clown beetle
  • The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9. From the entry ant-heap
  • As he scraped and shovelled the slabbery dung he remembered: 'For too long the Catholics of Ulster have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.'1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition). From the entry slabbery
  • The deadly gasses from dung in the cowbarn ruin her digestion—poison her hay and other foods—sap her vitality and prevent her from giving you a maximum supply of good milk.1921 June 10, Hoard’s Dairyman, page 869. From the entry cowbarn

Meaning of dung

  1. noun Manure; animal excrement.
  2. noun A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
  3. noun A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.

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Questions about dung in a sentence

How do you use dung in a sentence?
Dung is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.”
What is a short sentence with dung?
“The dung beetle had lamellate antennae.”
What does dung mean?
Dung means manure; animal excrement.

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