Example sentences for: dung

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

  • I'll endure the scurrying roaches long enough to say It's been a lot of fun (although I don't usually have elephant dung with my oatmeal).

  • In Gulliver's Travels , the hero closely observes insect droppings and the stinking evacuations of cows, while the horrible Yahoos pelt him with their dung.

  • Do you, as a former resident of New York City, miss the great headline-writing abilities of the staff of the New York Post ? They have an editorial today about the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Giuliani-opposed exhibition of young British artists headlined "One Stink-ular Sensation," a reference, as I'm sure you know, to Chris Ofili's use of elephant dung, among other media, in his painting of the Virgin Mary.

  • 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.

  • I have no problem with elephant dung (which is just chewed up grass anyway), and I'd guess the reason the painting set off such a furor is that it depicts a black Virgin Mary.


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