night soil

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of night soil This strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023 The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet. oregonlive, 1 May 2021 For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food. Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for night soil
Noun
  • Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Staying hydrated is equally important as water helps fiber do its job by preventing stool from drying out.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Might as well throw in the matching kids’ stool.
    Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amend the planting site with aged manure or compost.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • He was accused of operating an unlicensed hog farm on his property and disposing hog manure in nearby lagoons.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Night soil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/night%20soil. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!