MANURE in a Sentence

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Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
manure
 n.  fertilizer; any animal or plant material used to fertilize land; spread manure
Classic Sentence:
1  One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled with manure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
3  Certain success would attend the experiment of employing the city to manure the plain.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
4  If our gold is manure, our manure, on the other hand, is gold.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
5  All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
6  The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
7  The wagons were to begin carting manure earlier, so as to get all done before the early mowing.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
8  And to do this it was necessary to look after the land himself, not to let it, and to breed cattle, manure the fields, and plant timber.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
9  In the center of the block, by itself, was the stable for the three horses of the drayman, and beside it a pile of manure.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  She could smell the manure and sweat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face immediately brightened on seeing Rostov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
12  All about the field, like heaps of manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded to each couple of acres.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
13  The shutters of the house were closed, and Christian Cantle, who had been wheeling manure about the garden all day, had gone home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
14  Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
Example Sentence:
1  Aerators reduce the manure nitrogen content, require fairly high capital investment, and are expensive to operate and maintain.
2  Their manure, which emerges as a liquid, tends to splash everywhere, including into milking equipment.
3  The air seemed to have different grades of warmth and chill in it; they were passing a farmyard with strong-smelling, acrid from the sour smell of manure.
4  Manure and improperly composted manure can be a source of pathogen contamination on crop products intended for human consumption.
5  If farm - yard manure is used it must be well rotted.
6  A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.