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Examples of excrement in a Sentence
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
Recent Examples of excrement from the Web
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The bed of excrement also contained unusual levels of bile acids and fatty compounds found in the digestive tracts of horses and ruminants.
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The floors and walls of the room were covered in excrement and the dogs had a variety of health problems.
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A CNN host called President Trump a ‘man baby’ and a piece of excrement.
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Police allegedly found no food in the home and say the home’s carpeting was stained black with excrement.
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In one recent offering, he is shown as Dumbo, the Disney elephant, flying away from the United States after burying it under great piles of excrement.
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SYDNEY, Australia — The annual beach pilgrimage during the height of summer in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, is threatened by an unsettling phenomenon: shores where the tides are tainted with excrement.
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In the summer of 2011, at least one prisoner smeared his excrement in his cell ventilation shafts, sending a stench through the structure that sickened both captives and guards.
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On the unfinished concrete floor were sacks of coarse gray powder, empty cigarette packets, and two neat piles of human excrement.
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Origin and Etymology of excrement
Latin excrementum, from excernere
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playDefinition of excrement for English Language Learners
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: solid waste passed out of the body
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