DONKEY in a Sentence
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36 example sentences for DONKEY, such as:
1. A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
2. On little donkey, patiently stumble.
3. The donkey is eating grass on the field.
4. If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
5. If a donkey brays at you, don't bray at him.
2. On little donkey, patiently stumble.
3. The donkey is eating grass on the field.
4. If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
5. If a donkey brays at you, don't bray at him.
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Meanings and Examples of DONKEY
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donkey
n. domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
n. the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey.
2 Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion.
3 None of you has ever seen a dead donkey, and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
4 "The donkey who couldn't choose between hay and turnips and so starved," Isabella explained, interposing--anything--between her aunt and her husband, who hated this kind of talk this afternoon.
5 This is the burden that the past laid on me, last little donkey in the long caravanserai crossing the desert.
6 On little donkey, patiently stumble.
7 Here the hindquarters of the donkey, represented by Albert the idiot, became active.
8 The donkey was captured; hampers were loaded; and forming into a procession, the picnickers began to disappear over the hill.
9 On, little donkey" Isa murmured, "crossing the desert.
10 And the Age of Reason hobnobbed with the foreparts of the donkey.
11 Next he assisted her into the room, where there was an old-fashioned horsehair settee as large as a donkey wagon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
12 Windy donkey as he was, it really amazed me that he could have the face to talk thus to mine.
13 His bedstead, covered with a tumbled and ragged piece of patchwork, was in the den he had come from, where another little window showed a prospect of more stinging-nettles, and a lame donkey.
14 The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.
15 In whatever occupation she was engaged, however interesting to her the conversation in which she was taking part, a donkey turned the current of her ideas in a moment, and she was upon him straight.
Example Sentence:
1 The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.
2 A donkey can carry a heavy burden.
3 The donkey is eating grass on the field.
4 If a donkey brays at you, don't bray at him.
5 If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
6 I did the donkey work but I hired a professional builder for the tricky bits.
7 A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.