How to Use dung in a Sentence

dung

noun

• Yes, even amid the big pile of elephant dung that is the year 2020.
  — Jessica Saggio|contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Slip around the woods and look for piles of dung with a greasy greenish tint.
  — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2019
• In the frigid winters, the recruits burned frozen cow dung for heat.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• And if that wasn't weird enough, the testicles are smoked in dry sheep dung.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2020
• Elephant dung gives new meaning to the phrase fiber in the diet.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2017
• There are roughly 6,000 species of dung beetles around the world.
  — Kimberly S. Sheldon, The Conversation, 9 Nov. 2022
• The faint, elusive scent of a nighttime water lily, or the acrid punch of fresh dung.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2022
• There are tilapia in the tank with them that eat their dung, hippo skin as well as algae off the rocks.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Over 24 hours, the researchers trapped 24 thumb-size dung beetles of the genus Catharsius.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 19 Feb. 2021
• Prokofiev shows us a patch in the snow, scattered with frozen pellets of dung and a few matted stalks.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• In the crest, Carson created the bull with a pile of dung under him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• The library was no more than a filthy niche in an old stone wall, crusted with the dung of rodents and bats.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• Somehow, elephant dung feels good in a place like this.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• The area included a stinking heap: years of goat dung in layers up to a foot thick.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• There is an odour, though barely detectable — sweet and acrid at once, like horse dung.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• Those who must burn wood and dung are prodded to do so in more efficient stoves.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• The cattle were intended to break up the soil, bash their way through the woods, and distribute their body weights in dung across the fields.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
• Soon the cow-dung cakes ignited, their chocolate-brown edges glowing in the dusk.
  — Monika Mondal, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2022
• Dung beetles roll their dung balls in straight lines by orienting against the glowing streak of the Milky Way.
  — Jo Marchant, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
• There are proper terms for the dung of every kind of game animal.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2021
• Others discussed leaving lion dung near boar hot spots, in the hope that the smell would deter the pigs.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• But the bird dung spiders’ mimicry serves yet another role.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• Here the scents are more domestic: parched cow dung, acrid but pleasant, and the sickly-sweet spice of chai, cooked on an open fire.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• In a rainy summer, Robinson said, the water can wash goose dung into lakes.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2019
• Slabbert kneels down, pulls apart a pile of cow dung, and tenderly picks out a beetle.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
• Over the next few days, researchers found more of the skull, including a crucial cheekbone, beneath the dung pile.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The dung cannon fungus that launches spores faster than a rocket?
  — Bryn Nelson /, NBC News, 14 June 2018
• Even their droppings were handy — their dung was fuel for burning.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• Kimberly questioned why the dung was part of a kitchen ritual, and how the mother cleaned the feces after lighting it on fire.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• While plants and trees grow in soil, mycelium grows in what’s called substrate (soil can be a substrate, but fungi often grow in a combination of wood, dung, coir or grain).
  — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023

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