effluence

Example Sentences

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In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023

So many words, words upon words, the effluence of the dialogue being the show’s draw, as well as one of its drawbacks.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020

The combined effluence of 400-plus Antarctic lakes no doubt exerts a significant influence on the Southern Ocean’s chemistry and biology.

From Scientific American • Apr. 12, 2020

The bigger culprits appear to be invasive species, Delta farm fertilizer, Sacramento effluence, the drought and, perhaps, natural selection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2016

This thoroughfare, only used by pedestrians, was very still, and trees planted down the middle of the pavement gave to the mild March evening an effluence of spring.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton