excrement

Mr. Warrack describes removing an approximately 3-foot-deep layer of pigeon excrement from Rome’s Church of SS Vincenzo e Anastasio, “which revealed a multitude of squirming horrors that even Hieronymus Bosch never dreamed of.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Amid gasps and sobbing from the public gallery, prosecutor Steven Ball outlined the "chaotic" conditions inside the parlour, including how mould was seen on coffins and both excrement and bodily fluids on floors.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The smell is "like excrement," said 68-year-old Patricio Velasquez, who shuts himself inside every summer due to the odor emanating from the dump.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

At the second it was in position at the base of his tail, Richard Parker’s anus distended, and out of it, like a bubble-gum balloon, came a black sphere of excrement.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

A path blooming with cow patties is likely to be less grueling than one marked only by the dark, nutlike excrements of goats, who can get up anywhere.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

There, old wounds on trilobite shells abound, and fossil excrements, likely produced by trilobites, contain yet more trilobite shells.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

However, I’m placing dog turds at the bottom of my list because I grew up in Rome, where I stepped on excrements more times than I can count.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

Our liquid excrements are salty, we can’t drink saltwater.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2016

This is probably a large estimate, but it serves to show that this fertilizer is very valuable, and also that poultry may be kept with great profit, if their excrements are properly secured.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring