ordure

Example Sentences

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“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

Around 100,000 are expected to brave Windsor train queues, airport-style security and ceremonial horse ordure.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2018

The alternative — trying to cram all this ordure back into its closet and forget we ever saw it — is, I hope, unthinkable.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

She further admits that what with the puppy and the toddler, she now has to put up with a different sort of ordure than she dealt with on the show.

From Time • Feb. 21, 2013

“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley