defecate
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Consider, then, taking in a mammal that can fell a tree, chew through wire, weighs 30 to 60 pounds full-grown, loves to wrestle, needs to swim and can only defecate in water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The dog was untrained and would run around the office and defecate on the carpet, with Yusuf seemingly unwilling to pick up the faeces, ex-employees told BBC News.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
In the cooler months of the year — historically from April to September — snakes become sluggish and may not eat, drink, defecate or even move for weeks at a time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Staff quickly began removing tar from the animals’ orifices to let them eat, breathe and defecate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Each set of six ate together, slept together, and had to urinate and defecate together.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
Then the bird defecates all over her wedding dress.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2020
After she is fired from her job for napping in the supply closet, she defecates on the floor of the gallery.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
Snaps at people, defecates indoors, knows no boundaries.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2017
Almost half of India's 1.25 billion people currently defecates in the open.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2014
The hungry animal plucks and swallows the fruit, walks or flies off, and then spits out or defecates the seed somewhere far from its parent tree.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
A man tried to wrestle a Canada goose, while a woman defecated at the edge of the park’s lake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The digital pets, which need attending to when they are hungry, sick or have defecated on the virtual floor, grow up as users care for them -- but can die if they are neglected.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Between us, we have defecated in cat holes, WAG bags, and oil drums alongside service members of different genders and sexual identities.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2025
The scientists have fed the bats pawpaw fruit and, once the bats have defecated on the tarpaulin, they take swabs of the bright orange droppings and store them in test tubes.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
His care involved feeding him, changing his clothes and sheets, cleaning him up like a baby after he urinated and defecated, keeping him company, and reading to him.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Toilets crawling with rats, maggots and flies became so noxious that neighbors began defecating on the surrounding dirt roads.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
They’ve complained about TikTokers trespassing onto countryside farms, tourists defecating on private property and near-fist fights over trailhead parking—not to mention unsafe traffic blockages on narrow roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
An infected individual usually feels restless and spends a lot of time defecating watery diarrhea.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
"They started defecating all over the place - all over the railings," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2024
Queenie squats in front of him, defecating loosely, scootching a few inches forward after each fresh burst of liquid.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
