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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