How to Use feces in a Sentence

feces

plural noun
  • Lee talked about one house that had dog feces on the floors.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Four dogs were caged in the kitchen, lying in urine and feces.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
  • And the crowd broke windows and smeared feces on the inside of the Capitol.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
  • Some women smeared feces over the walls and doors of their cells.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • The nuns were strip searched, shackled and held in cells smeared with feces.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Don’t track blood/entrails/feces in through the front door!
    Josh Lieb, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In the hallways their comrades smeared their own feces on the walls.
    Time, 7 Nov. 2022
  • On the stand, Heard blamed Depp’s dog Boo — not herself or any of her friends — for the feces Depp found on the bed.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • And nearly a year ago, a pair of swastikas were found drawn in feces in a South bathroom.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Is there any trash or dog feces that needs to be removed?
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But one also does not wish to sully the nest with feces.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 July 2020
  • Their hooves aerate the soil, while their urine and feces enrich it.
    Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Depending on diet, about two-thirds of it winds up in urine and the rest in feces.
    Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Someone put glue on the door locks of the vehicle and spread dog feces on the door handles.
    Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • So the people accept the feces and other nuisances made by the birds.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • In June, two swastikas were found drawn in feces in a Newton South bathroom.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Police talked to the woman, who showed them pictures of her own trash can with feces smeared on the lid.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • And there’s a river of feces that flows outside the building onto the grass.
    Joe Cavaretta, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • It was praised as a success and led to a drop in the number of 311 reports for feces removal.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • According to the court report, the teens were also forced to drink urine and eat feces.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • She was forced to eat cat feces, doused with boiling water and seared with an iron.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
  • Some teens took those brief moments of human contact to fling their feces and urine at the guards.
    Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • None of these effects was seen in old mice given old mouse feces.
    Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
  • That’s because the animals shed the virus in their urine, feces and saliva.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The house was found to be in foul condition with feces and bottles of urine, police said.
    Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The infant was covered in feces and in dire need of food and water, the lawsuit also claims.
    Laura Studley, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The scents of urine, feces and bleach wafted through the halls past communal, cramped quarters.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The scientists fed a slurry of feces to the old mice using a feeding tube twice a week for 8 weeks.
    Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The virus is highly contagious and can be spread through contact with infected feces.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • An indirect way whales can be critical carbon sinks is through their feces.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022

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