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
I saw it a week before I started typing this and already don’t remember who dun exactly what.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020
Jumper was a dun mule with a narrow black stripe running along his backbone between his mane and tail.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
