call of nature
Example Sentences
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These horses occasionally answered the call of nature, creating a bacteria-filled environment that required the athletic trainer to keep a supply of tetanus shots on hand, to be administered when players’ wounds broke the skin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
They also had to answer the call of nature, like everybody else - resulting in a very quirky lot.
From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2017
But she says this did not deter the jogger from answering the call of nature outside the Budde residence.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2017
How it constitutes good manners to underline the call of nature by hopping up and down like a jack-in-a-box I fail to understand.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2014
She, too, pretended he had merely left his post to answer a call of nature.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
