How to Use manure in a Sentence

manure

noun
  • The air was thick with the scents of grass and mint and manure.
    Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Near the chicken sheds, the stench of manure was strong.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The guy who did win brought in a truckload of manure, the truck bed filled to the brim.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The horse ranchers need to get rid of the manure and the tree trimmers need to pay to dump the mulch.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • With each footstep, the scent of grass or horse manure wafted through the air.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Monday night at Barclays Center, the Heat had to win one in the manure.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • As dear old dad used to say, after (manure), that comes next.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • These are the manures that are most available to your plants, and the manures that plants evolved to take advantage of.
    Bill Finch, al, 10 June 2023
  • Food waste produces about three times the methane that manure does.
    Jeff Kart, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The smell of dirt, hay and horse manure permeated the building.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • While soil can be a substrate, many mushroom types grow where plants cannot: in wood, straw, coir and manure.
    Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • For each rose, dig a hole up to two feet around and deep, then mix in a bag of manure or organic compost.
    Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Horse manure plops onto the asphalt, and no one blinks or scrunches their nose.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • After the first frost, remove the dead plants and spread an inch of compost or composted manure over the bed.
    Jenny Krane, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023
  • According to the report, the fire came from a barn that houses chickens and manure.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 30 May 2022
  • The permits require farms to have plans on how to store and get rid of the massive amounts of manure produced by the animals.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The road was often pockmarked with muddy tractor tracks and clumps of hay and manure.
    Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • The system cuts up to 99% of the methane emitted from the manure-sludge left behind in a dairy shed after milking.
    Reuters, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
    oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Sarah looks around the property, breathing in the familiar scent of mud and manure.
    Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
  • One adult worker in the Yakima Valley drowned in a manure lagoon.
    Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The aging compost is made from layers of garden scraps, food waste and manure.
    Brett Anderson Adam Riding, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Decked in cowboy or rubber boots, jean shorts and t-shirts, Ressler and her friends spent the morning wielding shovels to clean the manure out of the calves’ pens next to the barn.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Outside, there was a pony, two goats and geese that shared a living space that contained about three feet of manure and hay, the warrant added.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Another was tending to his cows when the soldiers came, and stood in his wellies and wool jacket, dirty with manure.
    Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The manure that falls in the lanes where cows are feeding is flushed with water into covered lagoons.
    The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The manure is sold to people who have gardens, and some is used to grow tree seedlings that the organization sells.
    Evelyne Musambi, ajc, 30 Jan. 2023
  • After all, Orlando has walked through horse manure to get to this point.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Fire investigators determined that the fire started in the corner of the barn near a garage door that led to the manure pit.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022

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