How to Use defecate in a Sentence

defecate

verb

• These moths hitch a ride to the forest floor during the sloth's once-a-week climb down from the canopy to defecate.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2015
• The waits for toilets were so long that men defecated in the showers.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Worst of all was the man who defecated on the floor and said the cleaning fee should cover the cost of its removal.
  — Zoë Bernard, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Fiber from the new growth of grass and browse causes deer to defecate more frequently—up to 27 times a day.
  — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2019
• One shared a video of a deputy defecating on someone’s bed.
  — Jerry Mitchell, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• They are also known to use these water sources as places to defecate.
  — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• There were so few toilets in town that people were defecating in the open.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2018
• My sources tell me that a service dog defecated on the carpet, and the owner did not clean it up.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the clip, the pilot announced that someone on board had defecated in the plane’s front toilet.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• The bugs defecate on the skin, and the feces, which can contain the parasite, can enter a person’s body through the nose, mouth, or breaks in the skin.
  — Paula Andalo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• There was no room to move; prisoners had to urinate and defecate right there.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2017
• The bears don’t eat, defecate or urinate while bundled up in their dens, but females give birth to cubs.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• And — reading on — the flutes made of bone, the zoos, the purple dye made from snails, the roulette, the automatons of digesting and defecating ducks, and Minecraft.
  — Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• The tear can cause pain and bleeding when defecating (pooping).
  — Brittany Dube, Health, 30 June 2024
• Over the next 11 hours, the coyote didn't even defecate or urinate while spending the night in the relative warmth of Boroditsky's car.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 3 Dec. 2019
• First, my dog decided to defecate on her carpet in the living room.
  — Vincent Parker, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• When the restrooms are locked, these individuals urinate and defecate along the walls of the snack bar.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• Some of the toilets are out of order, so the patients urinate and defecate in black buckets next to their beds, the fetid smell wafting through the hallways.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Places where cats prefer to defecate, like the loose soil of gardens and children's sandboxes, tend to have the highest oocyst counts.
  — Author: Rick Sinnott, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 June 2017
• Oh, and turkey vultures also urinate and defecate on their own legs to keep cool.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• The dog was seen defecating by a resident, who said the man walked away without cleaning up after the dog.
  — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
• Kleinman said residents should not have to see people urinate and defecate in the streets.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• He would often be awoken in the night by his cellmates defecating.
  — Nico Lang, Them, 26 July 2024
• That ideal doesn't fit so well perhaps with them sitting out in the stable to defecate along with the animals.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 23 June 2017
• Robinson and Martin might have invited me to defecate in my hat.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2021
• At one protest, people pretended to defecate on a photo of Mao.
  — Barbara Demick, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Filed against three state agencies, the suit alleges children were locked down in isolation for up to weeks at a time and forced to eat, sleep and defecate in their cells.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
• This is intercut with shots of villagers squatting in fields to defecate.
  — Liz Neisloss, CNN, 8 Sep. 2017
• The winner was determined by where the bovine defecated.
  — cleveland, 23 Sep. 2019
• But skeptics made their thoughts clear, with some threatening to hold a protest by defecating in the river ahead of the officials’ promised swim.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024