How to Use defecation in a Sentence

defecation

noun

• That’s in part why such a lengthy record of defecation excited D’Anjou.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
• And then there was the idea of offering more and better public bathrooms to cut down on street defecation.
  — Noah Arroyo, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2022
• The sling of tissue is supposed to release during defecation.
  — Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• San Francisco’s travails with public defecation have made headlines in the last couple of years, and for good reason.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2021
• Heard blamed one of the couple’s Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, for the defecation incident, but Depp was convinced a person had done it.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• And most importantly, 361 public toilets have been built, connected to the new sewers, to reduce the rate of open defecation.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• His group aims to end open defecation and provide clean water to communities in India.
  — Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Really, a walk during extreme heat is only for urination and defecation and to get some fresh air.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• The human body loses fluids in many ways, such as sweating, breathing, urination and defecation, as well as through tears and saliva.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• But the vast majority are bacteria, and the bulk of them reside in the gut, or gastrointestinal tract (which means that each defecation probably flips the ratio in our favor).
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2021
• Instead of a nineteenth-century novel or a Broadway play, the screenplay is based on a character who first appeared on a British sketch show in the nineties and is known for his anti-Semitism and public defecation.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2021
• In many cities, public restrooms are not available overnight—or at all—yet cities prohibit public urination and defecation.
  — Vera Institute Of Justice, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
• While dog diapers will certainly reduce the effects of uncontrolled urination and defecation, they should not be used as the sole means of housebreaking a new pet.
  — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• The human body loses fluids in several ways, such as sweating, breathing, urination and defecation, as well as through tears and saliva.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The human body loses fluids in several ways, such as sweating, breathing, urination and defecation, as well as through tears and saliva.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• As the defecation incident revealed, though, the sense of togetherness doesn’t apply beyond our workplace.
  — Ann Larson, The New Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
• Kenneth Halberg The rectums of most mammals and insects absorb any remaining nutrients and water from the body's waste products prior to defecation.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• The word could mean receptors that expel waste into sewers, chamber pots emptied by hand or pits designated for defecation.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• While the city’s urban camping law is tied up in a court challenge, there are plenty of other ordinances — from public defecation to public right-of-way laws — that prohibit establishing tent cities.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 24 July 2020
• Open defecation and urination create public health risks.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• This behavior is similar to that of many mammals, which have preferred areas for defecation to communicate their presence.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Undergoing training can also trigger FRAPs, along with a simple act like defecation.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• More than a century passed before their acts of defecation were finally caught on camera, by the biologist William Browne of the University of Miami and his colleagues, who filmed one of the amorphous creatures taking a big fishy dump in the lab.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• Only 24% of Kenyan villages are certified as open defecation-free – a determinant of better sanitation.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2021
• In addition, Chappelle's experience with public defecation is not unique.
  — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 14 May 2023
• Seizures can present themselves as twitching, trembling, drooling, confusion, loss of balance or consciousness, convulsions, involuntary urination or defecation, and even a complete loss of consciousness.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• Researchers anticipate discovering how the wombat’s distinctive defecation process works can help humans detect colon cancer.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2021
• The ballooning dogs expelled air from their bowels; this led frequently—and simultaneously—to defecation, urination, and projectile vomiting.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2015
• San Francisco developed a job training program employing attendants to monitor restrooms throughout the city in an effort to address complaints about public urination and defecation while reducing safety issues at the toilet facilities.
  — Emily Hoerner, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024