dun
Example Sentences
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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
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
“It would go dun dun dun dun,” Bellemeur, 99, says quietly as she sits in her Pasadena retirement home.
From Los Angeles Times
It isn’t pretty; the palette runs toward dun and dull red with slashes of marine blue.
From New York Times
He shades his eyes at the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of The Star, the $1.5 billion complex that lurches out of the dun hills north of Dallas.
From Washington Post
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