Example Sentences

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Camels help it spread by eating the pods and excreting them far and wide.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

He was excreting things he had never seen in his stool before and feeling things he had never felt before.

From Salon • May 18, 2025

Researchers have long known that mammals and birds can play a key role in spreading seeds, often by eating fruit and then excreting the seeds.

From Science Magazine • May 8, 2024

It also is exceptional at urination, excreting the human equivalent of 2,500 gallons of urine a day.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut