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

Where it landed was in a storm drain, swallowed by the dark orifice at the northwest corner of 13th Street and New York Avenue NW.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2017

Although only about 1,600 people died of Ebola over those years, the grotesque nature their deaths — copious hemorrhaging from every orifice — has lent the disease a frightening reputation.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 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