ordure
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.
“Though purple may have symbolized a higher order, it reeked of a lower ordure,” Dr. Grovier writes in his book, “The Art of Colour.”
From New York Times
Government entomologists imported dozens of species of beetles to address several problems, among them fouled pastures, slowing decomposition and disease-carrying flies in ordure.
From New York Times
“It is I, Abigail,” she says, standing there with ordure on her dress, having been booted out of a carriage.
From The New Yorker
“The ordure and other evacuations of the sick, were allowed to remain in the most offensive state imaginable....It was, in fact, a great human slaughter-house.”
From Literature
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
