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
Instead of the lush, even green of the surrounding pastures, the vegetation here was a mottled dun, many-textured, thin and low to the ground.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022
It’s Grace Smeath, charmless and righteous, in shapeless, ageless clothing, dun in color; she is ringless and without ornament.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing dun
Twelfth Night
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 7
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War Horse
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