DONKEY in a Sentence

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The donkey was captured; hampers were loaded; and forming into a procession, the picnickers began to disappear over the hill.

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 Meanings and Examples of DONKEY
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donkey
 n.  a domesticated hoofed mammal of the horse family
 n.  the symbol of the Democratic Party
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
3  None of you has ever seen a dead donkey, and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
5  This is the burden that the past laid on me, last little donkey in the long caravanserai crossing the desert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
6  On little donkey, patiently stumble.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
7  Here the hindquarters of the donkey, represented by Albert the idiot, became active.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
8  The donkey was captured; hampers were loaded; and forming into a procession, the picnickers began to disappear over the hill.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  On, little donkey" Isa murmured, "crossing the desert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  And the Age of Reason hobnobbed with the foreparts of the donkey.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
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
12  Windy donkey as he was, it really amazed me that he could have the face to talk thus to mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
14  The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
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.