How to Use excrete in a Sentence

excrete

verb

• Once researchers wash off the dye, the mice lost their translucency and the dye is excreted through urine, according to the university site's description of the study.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
• The small amount of stable bismuth-209 that remains at the end is excreted in the urine.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
• Plus these birds all drink saltwater and excrete the salt through the tubes.
  — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• The mantle then contracts, which excretes waste from the squid’s body.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• Did deer nibble and excrete their way at night through fields?
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 7 May 2018
• The bad stuff, like toxins, are filtered out of the blood to be excreted via urine or stool.
  — Men's Health, 27 Apr. 2023
• In the case of one kind of typhus fever, for example, lice excrete the pathogen in their feces.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 3 June 2024
• The best thing to do now, the priest told her, was to wait and hope that, in due time, her husband would excrete the love potion in his system.
  — Imbolo Mbue, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• The food waste may be excreted so quickly that nary a single fart can be formed.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• Both strategies allow the body to excrete the methanol before it’s turned into formic acid.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• New plants are spread by birds carrying or excreting the seed on new branch sites.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• The corals excrete a hard substance that builds up into a reef, giving the coral polyps and many other creatures a place to live.
  — Damien Cave and Justin Gillis, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• The digest the organic matter, bacteria and fungi in the soil and excrete the rest.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• Some of the plant sap will be excreted as honeydew, which makes the plant, as well as things like lawn furniture under the plant, sticky.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• As a result, the bacteria excrete a limestone filler, similar to a cement paste, that fills in the crack.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018
• The snail excretes a juvenile form of the worm, which then has 24 hours to find a mammal host to infect or die, according to Dillman.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• These drugs work similarly to excrete excess water and salt from the body into the urine.
  — Mary Choy, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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.
  — Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 8 May 2024
• Even insects that suck plant sap are forced to excrete surplus sugars, in the form of liquids known as honeydew or lerp.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2021
• Then there's lymphatic drainage which accelerates the movement of lymph out of the skin and back into the blood where it's processed by the body and excreted.
  — Olivia Fleming, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Aug. 2016
• The weakened virus used in vaccines replicates for a short time in children’s intestines and is excreted in their feces.
  — Jim Gomez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• In these birds, the viruses infect cells in the gut, passing through them before being excreted in their droppings.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 May 2024
• Antigens from these bacteria are excreted in the urine.
  — Tanya Feke, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2024
• These aquatic insects, found worldwide, excrete a sticky silk from their mouths and use it to build a hard case from objects in their habitat, which includes stones, leaves, and shells.
  — National Geographic, 23 June 2018
• Infected individuals excrete the pathogen, which gets flushed down the toilet or washed down the drain.
  — Kyle Bibby, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2020
• When consumed, delta 8 is metabolized by the body and excreted through urine.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Fiber traveling through the gut traps bad cholesterol and helps you excrete rather than absorb it, Dr. Mohanty says.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
• Later, the magnetic nanoparticles fell off the cells, exited the eye and were excreted in the patients’ urine.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017
• Patients are given a medication that binds to bismuth and is excreted in the urine.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The team pieced together several factors that indicated the shark had been eaten and the tag excreted by a larger predator that gobbled up the shark, Anderson said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024