How to Use dung in a Sentence

dung

noun
  • Slip around the woods and look for piles of dung with a greasy greenish tint.
    — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The team ended up with a jar of elephant dung scent.
    — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • There is an odour, though barely detectable — sweet and acrid at once, like horse dung.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Elephant dung gives new meaning to the phrase fiber in the diet.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Those who must burn wood and dung are prodded to do so in more efficient stoves.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Even their droppings were handy — their dung was fuel for burning.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Mongabay said two dogs, Yagi and Quinn, found the dung in two days.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Yes, even amid the big pile of elephant dung that is the year 2020.
    — Jessica Saggio|contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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 proper terms for the dung of every kind of game animal.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 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
  • Fire may have simply been conserved by adding fuel, such as dung that is slow burning.
    — Andrew C. Scott, Time, 1 June 2018
  • And there is probably less pig dung available for dung beetles.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 25 Apr. 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
  • The dung cannon fungus that launches spores faster than a rocket?
    — Bryn Nelson /, NBC News, 14 June 2018
  • The streets are begrimed by factory smoke, fecund with horse dung and lit by lanterns.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Slabbert kneels down, pulls apart a pile of cow dung, and tenderly picks out a beetle.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
  • These rodents left 15 pieces of dung on top of the dishwasher.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Soon the cow-dung cakes ignited, their chocolate-brown edges glowing in the dusk.
    — Monika Mondal, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2022
  • There are roughly 6,000 species of dung beetles around the world.
    — Kimberly S. Sheldon, The Conversation, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Usually, a sign as old as this one would have bird carcasses or dung inside.
    — Kimi Robinson, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Of course, the flue was closed, so the fire licked up the walls, left a smell like the fall, like ancient smokehouses and dung.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In a rainy summer, Robinson said, the water can wash goose dung into lakes.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 12 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • While most of us pack ours with groceries, Hamilton stores pounds upon pounds of bison dung in his.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Farmers grabbed piles of dung to use as fertilizer while bloggers set up their phones to film themselves.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2021
  • The siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove's dung sold for five pieces of silver.
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026

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