dung - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • burn: In the middle is a stove where they burn the yak dung.
  • dry: A carefully constructed mound of dried dung provides fuel that would also once have come at the expense of local trees.
  • spread: Players then have to spread the dung on their plants to see how much food they can produce for the village.
  • collect: The cows were facing the wall and a large gutter served to collect both cow dung and bedding straw.
  • remove: Scrape / remove dung from channel at least once daily.

Adjective modifier

  • camel: You may find yourself gathering camel dung to put on the fire.
  • fresh: Toward evening of the third day we even found fairly fresh dung.
  • animal: Animal dung can change the plants growing in a meadow.

Modifies a noun

  • beetle: A cow pat is heaven to a dung beetle.
  • heap: The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.
  • cart: Monday 20th May A dung cart goes past the window with a shovel stuck in the top.
  • pellet: The males provide the dung pellets for the female to bury.
  • pile: Our llamas mostly consider the whole field their communal dung pile.
  • pit: They form very close social groups, each group having its own territorial boundary which is marked out with dung pits ( latrines ).

Noun used with modifier

  • yak: In the middle is a stove where they burn the yak dung.
  • cow: The cow dung attracts insects which provide a food source for the bats.
  • elephant: Fact: Did you know that a single elephant dung pat can attract 4,000 dung beetles in 30 minutes?
  • cattle: The largest party seen in 2003 was of 13 feeding among cattle dung on 4 October.
  • lion: These pellets have been soaked in real lion dung - cats are terrified of lions.
  • horse: Tomorrow I'm having a trailer full of horse dung delivered from a local farm.

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