excrement
Example Sentences
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Humans can be infected with hantavirus by breathing in airborne excrement from some types of rats and mice.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
The shelter in the town hall car park has excrement smeared on the floor and reeks of urine.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
Near its tail, it also hosts a small group of worms that feed on its excrement.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026
Local politicians and business representatives said a main source of the rodent problem is a laneway which is covered with pigeon excrement and hasn't been cleaned in several months.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
He that said “I bleed,” he reached up to the sun and pulled out handfuls of excrement from the bowels of the sun, and with that dung made the hills and valleys of the earth.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing excrement
Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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A Dance with Dragons
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