Example sentences for: dung

How can you use “dung” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From a few nouns and adjectives in a newspaper--"Virgin Mary," "elephant dung," "bisected pig," "fictional biographer"--and some overlit images on the television screen.

  • Encephalitis and elephant dung.

  • They also tend to truck in loads of dung in the form of earnest psychobabble.

  • Rudolph Giuliani has managed to make himself a laughingstock to the cognoscenti by threatening to de-fund the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it doesn't cancel an art show that includes (according to today's New York Times ) "a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with a clump of elephant dung."

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.


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