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How to use the word manure in a Sentence?

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The message of this episode is that Jesus was one of us, we explore certain elements of his birth, like Joseph scooping manure with a shovel to make room for Mary to give birth.

Dallas Jenkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

( It happens) mostly through ammonia, which is released when farmers use nitrogen fertilizer -- which they use a lot of -- or is released from animal manure.

Jason Hill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies.

Rick Gaber

added by Normando
3 years ago

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein

added by Normando
4 years ago

The flesh of my flesh. And the bone of my bone. Must return to mother earth to replenish the soil of the ground. As manure is to the plants.”

Jamela Dunbar

added by Eside
5 years ago

The entry team quickly reached the victim, removed him from the manure and placed him in a stokes basket. He was removed to the outside and decontaminated and assessed by waiting EMS.

Chester County Rescue Task Force

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Leafy greens, such as lettuce, can become contaminated in the field by soil, contaminated water, animals or improperly composted manure, lettuce can also be contaminated by bacteria during and after harvest from handling, storing and transporting the produce.

Jeff Farber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Jon Tester took a highly respected man by Presidents President Donald Trump, Obama and Bush and personally led the Democrat attack to destroy Ronny Jackson and fight President President Donald Trump, jon Tester keeps promising Montanans Jon Tester'll work with the President, but instead Jon Tester's giving us a load of manure. I'm fed up with these political games from Tester and Jon Tester blind allegiance to Jon Tester party bosses and not the people of Montana.

Matt Rosendale

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I apply organic manure that I compost right at home, the imported vegetables do not taste so good.

Farmer Phub Zam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It changes the mindset of people when they know where food comes from, pretty soon they'll have tomato plants and be turning the chicken manure into compost.

Jenn Tompkins

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Robert A. Heinlein

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

John Steinbeck

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

J. Paul Getty

added by anonymous
14 years ago

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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