Example Sentences

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Now most folks would have dunned me right off for the damage.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill

"The account has been standing nearly a year, and I have dunned you for it until I am sick and tired."

From Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Would you have dunned me, and told me of it once a week?

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

P.S.—I forgot to tell you that the bank's guarantee company and the general manager of the bank itself have dunned me for your part of the Banfield loss, fifty dollars.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

I meant to have dunned him for yours.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.