How to Use manure in a Sentence
manure
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The air was thick with the scents of grass and mint and manure.
— Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Near the chicken sheds, the stench of manure was strong.
— Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023 -
The guy who did win brought in a truckload of manure, the truck bed filled to the brim.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023 -
The horse ranchers need to get rid of the manure and the tree trimmers need to pay to dump the mulch.
— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023 -
With each footstep, the scent of grass or horse manure wafted through the air.
— Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Monday night at Barclays Center, the Heat had to win one in the manure.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024 -
As dear old dad used to say, after (manure), that comes next.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023 -
These are the manures that are most available to your plants, and the manures that plants evolved to take advantage of.
— Bill Finch, al, 10 June 2023 -
Food waste produces about three times the methane that manure does.
— Jeff Kart, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023 -
The smell of dirt, hay and horse manure permeated the building.
— James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024 -
While soil can be a substrate, many mushroom types grow where plants cannot: in wood, straw, coir and manure.
— Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023 -
For each rose, dig a hole up to two feet around and deep, then mix in a bag of manure or organic compost.
— Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.
— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023 -
After the first frost, remove the dead plants and spread an inch of compost or composted manure over the bed.
— Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023 -
According to the report, the fire came from a barn that houses chickens and manure.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 30 May 2022 -
The permits require farms to have plans on how to store and get rid of the massive amounts of manure produced by the animals.
— Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024 -
The road was often pockmarked with muddy tractor tracks and clumps of hay and manure.
— Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023 -
The system cuts up to 99% of the methane emitted from the manure-sludge left behind in a dairy shed after milking.
— Reuters, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022 -
But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.
— Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022 -
The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
— oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023 -
Sarah looks around the property, breathing in the familiar scent of mud and manure.
— Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022 -
One adult worker in the Yakima Valley drowned in a manure lagoon.
— Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The aging compost is made from layers of garden scraps, food waste and manure.
— Brett Anderson Adam Riding, New York Times, 8 May 2023 -
Decked in cowboy or rubber boots, jean shorts and t-shirts, Ressler and her friends spent the morning wielding shovels to clean the manure out of the calves’ pens next to the barn.
— Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022 -
Outside, there was a pony, two goats and geese that shared a living space that contained about three feet of manure and hay, the warrant added.
— Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022 -
Another was tending to his cows when the soldiers came, and stood in his wellies and wool jacket, dirty with manure.
— Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022 -
The manure that falls in the lanes where cows are feeding is flushed with water into covered lagoons.
— The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The manure is sold to people who have gardens, and some is used to grow tree seedlings that the organization sells.
— Evelyne Musambi, ajc, 30 Jan. 2023 -
After all, Orlando has walked through horse manure to get to this point.
— Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023 -
Workers alerted Antal, who rushed to the manure lagoon.
— Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2023
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