orifice

Example Sentences

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Second, smaller animals are expected to pee in droplets because their orifice is too tiny to emit anything thicker.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023

Gases that build up after death can be expelled through any orifice in the body, including the mouth, and may carry infectious virus, the researchers said.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

There is just dangerously hot air rushing out of every orifice.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2016

“Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did. Well, so did plenty of people, you three included, by the looks of it.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling