Example Sentences

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The plant will be found to have excreted water freely, some parts of the leaves being quite wet, while drops are collected at the places where they appeared at night.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by M'Pherson, J. G.

An old-style two-story side-bolt safe in the dingy office of a very wealthy old-style dry-goods firm on a Saturday night should have excreted more than twenty-five hundred dollars.

From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.