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Recent Examples of guanoThe Guano Point viewpoint is named for miners who tried to remove nitrogen-rich bat guano from a nearby cave discovered in 1930.—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 9 Nov. 2025 He was jolted out of his reverie by a whiff of guano in the breeze.—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 If excluding the bats is a DIY job, clean up the roosting area afterwards so that guano doesn’t attract other pests such as cockroaches and flies.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025 All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guano
Compost is decomposed organic matter, created when microorganisms break down plant materials, food scraps, leaves, manure, and other organic inputs.
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Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
8 June 2026
Benefits of Using Lemon Peels Adding lemon peels to your garden can boost soil health, deter pests, and even mask unpleasant odors like manure or compost.
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Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
7 June 2026
When your show’s ratings are lower than whale excrement, which Pelley’s were (and continue to be, under a succession of ever more lackluster Ted Baxters and Ron Burgundys).
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Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.
Fans started arriving early in the afternoon local time, ready to catch the Red, White and Blue in a World Cup match on home soil.
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Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
13 June 2026
The first World Cup match on American soil in more than a generation and the start of a tournament that has the potential to alter the direction of soccer in this country for the next generation.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
When Job, who is on a dunghill, oozing pus, after the death of his entire family, accuses God of needless cruelty, God appears in the form of a whirlwind, chastising Job for expecting something as measly as fairness from the Creator of the Universe.
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Audrey Wollen,
New Yorker,
6 May 2026
In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill.