How to Use donkey in a Sentence

donkey

noun

• No pinning the tail on the donkey in the case of the AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Was that pin the tail on the donkey box made for the show, or authentic to the '80s?
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 May 2022
• The film is told from the donkey’s point of view and even the music helps do that.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, Kate wants to play pin the tail on the donkey.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 May 2022
• The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem.
  — Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 28 Nov. 2022
• Open your eyes, sheeple: The donkey was a freaking fraud!
  — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
• Ibrahim jumps off the donkey cart, picks up a stick, and ties a white undershirt to it.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• There was a tropical drizzle in the air, and wild donkeys sought refuge in the brush.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
• There were donkeys to feed and cows to breed and plenty of cleaning to get done.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023
• The old miller and the young son decided to carry the donkey into town.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Nearby, the blood from the donkey killed by the Taliban suicide bomber splattered the ground.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Cheerful and spry, Mr. Ren swings open the wooden gate of the donkey shelter.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
• At that time, the shelter was home to dogs, cats, birds, goats, sheep and a donkey named Milton Burro.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Shannon has two dogs, four donkeys, six cats and a horse named Guinness who is dark and stout.
  — Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
• Don't just watch your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fall down in the road and do nothing about it.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 June 2022
• The 6-foot-4 actor and part-time donkey ranch hand auditioned for the role of Dr. Astrov but got the call for Vanya instead.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Then, after breaking his leg, the now donkey-Pinocchio is sold so that his hide can be used to make a drum.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• But the old donkey paths that were once the only routes across the peninsula now serve as a network of walking trails.
  — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023
• From the sounds of it, a miniature donkey named Miss Covergirl and a miniature horse named Cinderella are the stars of the show.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• My son, Kweli, screamed as a baby donkey named Matilda bit his big toe.
  — Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• In Italian, to be a donkey, or asino, means to either not be good in school or to work to the point of exhaustion.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Campbell's own three donkeys got a shoutout from Bush Hager on Thursday.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• These workers toiled for long hours at the site—which doubled as a prison—alongside donkeys to grind grain for bread.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The mule is a hybrid, produced by mating a male donkey, or jack, with a lady horse.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• The homeowner worried for the safety of his pets that were on the property: three dogs, three cats, a sheep, and a donkey.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• In the film, Farrell's character Pádraic keeps a donkey as a pet.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• Pádraic’s act of arson came as payback for the death of his beloved donkey, Jenny.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Jenny the donkey, border collie Morse and Minnie the horse.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
• Now The Banshees of Inisherin Never has a donkey had so much pathos.
  — ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• Above the woods and lakeland through which Joseph conducts the donkey bearing Mary and little Jesus, vast gulfs of space open out.
  — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024