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Recent Examples of donkey The Zen Donkey farm in Lone Jack, Missouri, currently has five donkeys (one of the older donkeys passed away this year) and two horses. Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2025 As if to punctuate his asinine decision, Marin makes a braying donkey noise. Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025 The kingpins at the top of the criminal tree rake it in, while those doing the donkey work as affiliates can also make the big bucks but with a much greater chance of getting caught factored in. Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 Rats, pigs, dogs and ants prey on tortoise eggs and hatchlings in the wild, while donkeys, goats, cattle and invasive plants disrupt their habitat. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for donkey
Recent Examples of Synonyms for donkey
Noun
  • Slip it on with sneakers for sightseeing or with classy mules for a night out to get two outfits in one.
    Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2025
  • Others lead mules to remote trail work sites, literally taking the loads off the backs of other volunteers.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • HMAs are designated areas where the BLM tries to manage a sustainable number of horses and burros while keeping rangelands healthy for other uses, like recreation and grazing.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In other words, humans will tire out long before the burro.
    Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024
Noun
  • The warm moment is interrupted, though, by Seth being a drunk and homophobic ass.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 May 2025
  • Her mother stalked the perimeter of the grave, faced with a philosophical question: how to take pictures of the ass of a ghost.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
  • An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To the show’s credit, Rick isn’t a simple bummer or jackass.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Shura said that Novikov treated him with disgust, carrying himself like a kham—a jackass.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Each year, fire safety officials warn of the dangers of fireworks and stage demonstrations of dummies that catch fire and watermelons that explode.
    Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 July 2017
  • At NASA Langley's Landing and Impact Research Facility, ten crash test dummies were buckled into a section of airplane fuselage and dropped from the sky.
    Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2017

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“Donkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donkey. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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