excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt 
: waste matter discharged from the body
especially
: feces
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Examples of excrement in a Sentence
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
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That customer suspected the stains were dirt or mold, not excrement, and the Barons were able to resolve the issue without incurring another negative review.
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
For Martin Luther, who famously threw his inkpot at the Devil, Satan was as elemental and omnipresent as excrement.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The first displays a Funk icon, Arneson’s John with Art (1964), a lumpy, stoneware toilet sculpture with ceramic excrement in the bowl and gestural splashes of color on the tank.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
What a sober, heartbreaking affirmation of life, and play, and sensuality, there in Paris, beside the turbid Seine, with the trenches — brimming with mud, death and excrement, not far to the east.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
For Martin Luther, who famously threw his inkpot at the Devil, Satan was as elemental and omnipresent as excrement.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The first displays a Funk icon, Arneson’s John with Art (1964), a lumpy, stoneware toilet sculpture with ceramic excrement in the bowl and gestural splashes of color on the tank.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
What a sober, heartbreaking affirmation of life, and play, and sensuality, there in Paris, beside the turbid Seine, with the trenches — brimming with mud, death and excrement, not far to the east.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
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“Excrement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excrement. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt
: waste matter discharged from the body and especially from the anus
Medical Definition
excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt
: waste matter discharged from the body
especially
: feces
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