excrete

Example Sentences

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In 2022, Dudley worked with collaborators in Panama to show that wild spider monkeys consume fermented fruit containing alcohol and later excrete alcohol metabolites in their urine.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

The body can then easily excrete the metals.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024

Excess sugar consumption also causes the body to excrete excess calcium, instead of reabsorbing it in the kidney as the body normally would.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

To mark their territory, both beaver species deposit mud piles on the ground and excrete castoreum on top.

From National Geographic • Nov. 15, 2023

He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison