dung

During the hottest hours, many retreat to makeshift huts -- frames of sticks draped with coarse homespun cloth, plastered with wild donkey dung.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

In “The Getaway”—filmed twice for the big screen—Doc and Carol McCoy conclude their escape hiding in caves, then a hut made of dung, before they end up in the infernal domain of El Rey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Government programmes have rapidly expanded LPG use for cooking in India, replacing kerosene and traditional biomass like firewood and dung.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Of particular concern are dung-feeding insects such as flies, dung beetles, and some butterflies.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2026

The dung cakes I made fell apart, so the fire went out.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

When it was gone, hot not before, the Wart knew certain dungs about it—dungs which he had not had time to notice while the boar was there.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He seldom sat down, but strayed about with nervous movements, picking dungs up and setting them down without looking at them, walking to windows and looking out but seeing nothing.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

You know, my friends, that if we wants to get a good crop of anything we dungs the ground.

From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Besides, we have heats of dungs, and of bellies and maws of living creatures and of their bloods and bodies, and of hays and herbs laid up moist, of lime unquenched, and such like.

From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More

They show a thoroughness, a care and an art in the mixing of the various animal dungs, with straw, woodsearth and cinders, which few modern gardeners could equal.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison

The soil from which he bloomed was richly dunged.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018

And 'twas with justice too; did they not break down my black fig tree, which I had planted and dunged with my own hands?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

As the King of Cambaya was one day riding in state, an unlucky kite dunged upon his royal head.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

Hast thou been digg'd about and dunged too, Will neither patience nor yet dressing do?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Asparagus haulm should also be cut and carried off the ground, and the beds dunged.

From The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by David Dickinson Mann

But as for our Monkish Antiquaries, and the Monastick Learning, it seems to be reserv'd for the Improvement of those, whose Minds, like barren Soils, will never bear without dunging.

From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon

In respect to the beavers dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into water to do it.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey

In respect to the beaver dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into the water to do it.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

In dunging corn in the holes, put two in a hill on any kind of soil where corn will grow, and you will have a good crop.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie

His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply gospel helps to this barren professor, if haply he may be fruitful.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan