Example Sentences

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"Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror.

From Time Magazine Archive

No man whose eliminatory processes function perfectly is ever a pessimist, except under the compulsion of hard facts.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel

Two eliminatory processes go on simultaneously while fasting.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve

"Hurry up," said Snorky, who by this time recognized that the first reasoning processes were simply eliminatory.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest