excretes

present tense third-person singular of excrete

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Instead, Carrie’s holiday is filled with a revolving door of haughty art dealers and Gen Z queerdos, one of whom clogs the toilet and expels a sea of brown that Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is forced to clean up.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This approach eliminates the reliance on chemicals, promotes organic and regenerative farming techniques, and aims to increase yields while preserving the health of the land.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The expo-style format also eliminates the stage fright some people might experience presenting their ideas before an audience.
    Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Oxygen emits either a greenish-yellow light (the most familiar color of the aurora) or a red light; nitrogen generally gives off a blue light.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But each lightning strike also emits nitrogen oxides, gases more commonly linked to vehicle exhaust.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Excretes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excretes. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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