dun
Example Sentences
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But developers won’t know it until state officials dun them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
I laughed at first, as I slowly made my way toward the board, but no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, that “dun, dun, dun, dun” kept getting louder.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
One of this crew, no surprise, ends up dead before the night is over, and an unusually somber Poirot must figure out whodunit, before he himself gets dun.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
At the Elko Convention Center, a painted tarp frames the stage: a cloudless blue sky and the dun prow of a mesa jutting skyward.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2019
It’s Grace Smeath, charmless and righteous, in shapeless, ageless clothing, dun in color; she is ringless and without ornament.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing dun
Twelfth Night
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 7
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War Horse
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