How to Use excrement in a Sentence

excrement

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  • Show up to work, walk to the track, spot a pile of human excrement on the ground.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 4 May 2018
  • At 1-6 and with the worst record in the NFL, the Lions have lots of work to do and lots of excrement to clean up.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Trash was strewn about the cell, and the toilet was filled with excrement.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • This is gross — the excrement from pecan aphids feasting on the trees.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • At least one of the rooms had dark streaks and handprints on the walls that appeared to be excrement.
    — Maya Alleruzzo and Salar Salim, Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
  • At the first whiff of fresh excrement, these beetles fly in.
    — Fiona McMillan, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Part of the comedic element of the toy are its dog excrement jokes.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • The guano, which is dark enough to see from space, inspired the scientists to use the streaks of excrement to track down the colonies.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The floors and walls of the room were covered in excrement and the dogs had a variety of health problems.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 14 June 2017
  • But also, more than 100 pieces of roach excrement on the kitchen walls by the walk-in cooler.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
  • One study found that 10% of a two-year-old pillow’s weight is due to dust mites and their excrement.
    — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, TIME, 24 June 2024
  • The workers slept right here, among piles of excrement dredged up from the darkness.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Then the fear that I’d be hit with a spray of the excrement that with each strike of his foot on the mattress burst into tiny pieces.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • They’ve been drugged, beaten, left to lie in their own excrement in tiny cages.
    — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2016
  • The high-class avian excrement hit the fan and the Swans ejected him from their social circles.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The discovery of the excrement is believed to be the first case of gastropods feeding on the rust.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Tucked in the mail one recent day was a letter packed with excrement.
    — Griffe Witte, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Derive excrement joke, Send your quip to the Empress, win a bad prize.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Their excrement sat in piles below each of their cages.
    — Kyle Swenson, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 July 2017
  • Back then, the New York City streets were made of dirt, covered in horse excrement, as well as rotting garbage.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One man, apparently caught up in the moment, leaned down and, with the urging of the crowd, ate a piece of horse excrement off the ground.
    — Greg Bishop and Ben Baskin, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • By Your Name, in which one man massages the excrement fromhis lover’s bowels.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
  • What’s worse than having to clean urine and excrement off the floor (hopefully only the floor) of your own house?
    — Helene Rubinstein, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The webworms are gone and only pellets of excrement remain in the web.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
  • In one of the movie’s most outrageous scenes, the Sasquatch brood gets upset and starts throwing its excrement.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • That may be why the program struggled to identify some of the dog excrement.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The creatures may have scavenged the dead fish’s brain, leaving a profuse amount of excrement in their wake.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold cans of his excrement.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The first displays a Funk icon, Arneson’s John with Art (1964), a lumpy, stoneware toilet sculpture with ceramic excrement in the bowl and gestural splashes of color on the tank.
    — Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
  • What a sober, heartbreaking affirmation of life, and play, and sensuality, there in Paris, beside the turbid Seine, with the trenches — brimming with mud, death and excrement, not far to the east.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024

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