dunghill

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He once described himself to one of his children as “a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill.

From Salon • May 31, 2012

One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill."

From Time Magazine Archive

But on their own dunghill they have none to overcrow them.

From Frontier Folk by Booth, George