How to Use donkey in a Sentence

donkey

noun

• No pinning the tail on the donkey in the case of the AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• After the deputy left the call, Hayes shot and killed the donkey.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• Was that pin the tail on the donkey box made for the show, or authentic to the '80s?
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 May 2022
• The film is told from the donkey’s point of view and even the music helps do that.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, Kate wants to play pin the tail on the donkey.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 May 2022
• The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 28 Nov. 2022
• The public got tired of it (and that donkey stunt didn’t air).
  — Ben Smith, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
• The donkey did eat from his hand at one point, the woman said.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Open your eyes, sheeple: The donkey was a freaking fraud!
  — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
• Every donkey on the ranch, 97 of them, would have been killed.
  — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
• The mule is a hybrid; a cross between a male donkey and a mare.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Dec. 2020
• The family donkey who was the mighty steed to his army.
  — courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• What kind of adolescent plays pin the tail on the donkey?
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Ibrahim jumps off the donkey cart, picks up a stick, and ties a white undershirt to it.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• There was a tropical drizzle in the air, and wild donkeys sought refuge in the brush.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
• The newborn African wild donkey, which was born on Aug. 5, does not have a name yet.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2020
• The donkey heehaws for Billy at the top of its lungs, and the bison grunts back.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• There were donkeys to feed and cows to breed and plenty of cleaning to get done.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023
• The old miller and the young son decided to carry the donkey into town.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Nearby, the blood from the donkey killed by the Taliban suicide bomber splattered the ground.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Cheerful and spry, Mr. Ren swings open the wooden gate of the donkey shelter.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• The donkey dangled on a leather strap, it was meant as a necklace.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Note that the donkey business was the only thing for which IRS nailed Wm.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• One path is through mating, just as the horse and donkey mate to create a mule.
  — Antonis Rokas, The Conversation, 4 June 2020
• Rounding the corner of the inn, there was a live donkey and Mary and Joseph with their new baby.
  — cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019
• Pets and Wildlife Olvera Street’s donkey may be forced to hit the road after eviction.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
• This anomaly is the elephant in the room — and the donkey in the room too — of the voting rights debate taking place now.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Basilicò heard a donkey braying in the distance and followed the sounds with the hope of finding the path.
  — Agostino Petroni, Outside Online, 5 May 2021
• Without enough ambulances to carry them, body after body of the dead arrived in private cars or donkey carts.
  — Ahmed Abu Artema, TIME, 12 Oct. 2024
• Once again, some families moved south on foot, in donkey carts or crowded in vehicles that navigated piles of rubble.
  — Samy Magdy and Bassem Mroue, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024