donkey

Example Sentences

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Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Behind him stood a faux Caribbean village—painted huts, dancers in island dress, even a live donkey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

The best he can muster against fellow contestant Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho is to bray like a donkey in labor distress that Arocho is full of “big, thick, ‘Traitor’ doo-doo.”

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

Electricity is provided from solar panels, while the toilet is compostable and located in a shack outside, where a donkey, horse, dogs, cats, chickens and ducks roam a clearing among the trees.

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

I was put in a special carrying case made of cowhide and bamboo and placed on top of a donkey.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola