dunged; dunging; dungs
: to fertilize or dress with manure
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Examples of dung in a Sentence
Noun
researchers tracked the wild gorillas by following the piles of dung
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 July 2024
In 1999, then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani threatened to terminate the Brooklyn Museum’s lease for displaying a Chris Ofili portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung.
—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021
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Noun
Their dung fertilized the ground, and their grazing promoted carbon sequestration in the soil.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 July 2024
In 1999, then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani threatened to terminate the Brooklyn Museum’s lease for displaying a Chris Ofili portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung.
—Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Verb
Hyenas will eat practically anything---from putrid corpses to dung---so donkeys are pretty much a treat.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2012
Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021
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“Dung.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dung. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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