Give me, therefore, my history, my whole history, and tell me all about me; for may I be dunned to death if I rightly know who I am!
The first was probably overcome by a sense of having dunned me too hard, and despair of forgiveness; on which supposition I gave him a frown, and waved my hand, and he retired.
And I'd leave a man's house as soon as I could settle up and get out, if I was ever dunned by him.
We remained at that hotel but one day, not being able to make satisfactory rates, besides being dunned for our board in advance.
He is dunned for debts he never contracted, rendered liable for hearts he never broke, and imprisoned for assaults he never committed.
There was no use arguing about the chances of being dunned for their board; the best thing he could think of was to have some board before he was asked to pay for it.
I'm in debt three or four hundred dollars, and dunned almost to death whenever I am in the way of duns.
To be dunned for money was more than the young man could endure with any kind of patience.
Men are not dunned so rigorously when they have just fallen into their fortunes.
I owe next to nothing, but I'll be hanged if I can get anything done for me without being dunned up to my very eyes.
Though I repeatedly dunned him for it, I could never get it back from him until I was preparing to leave Uganda.
I got no answer to that request either, but was immediately dunned for the compass, which had been promised on Grant's arrival.
Many years ago, an old widow body had been dunned into buying, for a few piastres, a ragged little manuscript from a pauper Maghrabi.
Every day they dunned us for tobacco; and when we made a counter-demand for the excellent fish which was caught in shoals, they simply asked, "What will you pay for it?
Would you have dunned me, and told me of it once a week?
At the present moment I owe six hundred pounds, and I don't know where to turn for it, so that my husband may not be dunned for my debts as soon as he has married me.
At last there was a washing bill to be paid; Bosie was dunned for it, and when I came in, he raged and whipped me with his tongue.
As soon as my play was advertised I found myself dunned and persecuted by a horde of people who declared that Oscar had sold them the scenario he afterwards sold to me.
But I dunned and dunned him until weary, and then, giving him up as a bad case, passed the trifle that he owed me to account of profit and loss.
I was angry at first, because he had treated me like a fool, and I dunned him with letters.
But he never dunned me, and during the forty years which have since elapsed he was gradually transformed in my memory into a benefactor, and all was well.
What can you expect but to be dunned every hour of your life?
He was dunned for his milk-score, arrested for rent, threatened by lawyers, but never learnt the wisdom of economy.
When Goldsmith wasdunned for his milk-score and arrested for the rent of his apartments, who would think of pitying the milk-woman or the landlady?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dunned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
