How to Use excretion in a Sentence

excretion

noun

• The kidneys are organs of excretion.
• Put simply, dolphin skin has a flexible microstructure that, combined with mucus excretions, is able to alter itself as Flipper swims at different speeds.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 July 2024
• That is the excretion of sap that passes through the bodies of those sucking insects.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• For month by month, the menstrual excretion takes away her sins.
  — Puja Changoiwala, SELF, 25 Sep. 2017
• The virus spreads among common carp quickly by excretion or through the epidermis and gills.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2021
• That’s sooty mold, a fungus that grows in the honeydew excretion of either aphids or scale insects.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
• For animal-farm digesters, the process starts with a cow’s ingestion and excretion of feed.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• Most are solitary, not hive-dwellers, occupying dirt or wood and some bees line their nests with a plastic-like excretion.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
• In response, WADA conducted studies on the drug’s excretion from the body.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• Years of failed dating, and a disgust/fear of the bodily excretion that is the primary ingredient in a Dirty Sanchez, have brought him to this point.
  — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2019
• All that death does make one wish to prove that one is alive oneself, and that life offers something more exalted than excretion and suffering.
  — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
• Singing similarly puts force behind the excretion, shooting it out like a geyser.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• Still, these visions of metabolism leave us stuck absorbing the excretions of a system that hates us.
  — Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
• Lead and gout have been linked; lead exposure is suspected as a cause of gout by inhibiting urinary uric acid excretion.
  — Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Fortunately, the excretion is not a danger, much like the cicadas themselves.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 May 2021
• For instance, people with a condition known as Gilbert syndrome don’t make enough of a protein that helps prepare bilirubin for excretion.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
• The Houston Health Department said oak, pine and ash trees will be particularly high in pollen excretion.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
• There can also be less absorption in the elderly and more excretion of magnesium.
  — Willow Jarosh, Ms, Rd, Health, 27 June 2023
• Instead, it is caused by a mutation in an area between genes, resulting in the excretion of a toxic chemical that kills muscle cells.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Water helps to prevent dehydration and with the removal of waste through urination and excretion.
  — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2022
• Higher numbers of viruses mean greater viral shedding, which is the expulsion and release of excretions infected with the virus.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 7 Apr. 2020
• When horses have become infected with Hendra from bat excretions, the virus has a fatality rate of 80%.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
• In addition, the kidneys rapidly filter the molecules out of the blood for excretion—a benefit when the cargo is radioactive.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
• Both of these bone types (jawbones and pectoral fins) grow via the excretion of rows of osteoblasts (large cells responsible for the synthesis and mineralization of bone).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• As the nymphs feed on leaf undersides, their excretions or droppings (technically named lerps) look like salt or sugar crystals.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 13 July 2024
• Data is also not available to assess the effects of the vaccine on breastfed infants or on milk production/excretion.
  — Bethany Blankley, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
• The drug, given intravenously, circulates to the tumor and gets tagged for excretion in the liver, where it is rendered harmless by the addition of a simple sugar.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• One room is only for excretion, because groundhogs are very clean animals.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Water snakes, like many snake species, will release a strong, musky odor from scent glands in their cloaca — an opening used for reproduction and excretion located near the base of the tail — when they are threatened or handled.
  — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
• Police transported the man to a detox facility and cited him for public excretion.
  — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 12 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024