How to Use excrement in a Sentence

excrement

noun

• Show up to work, walk to the track, spot a pile of human excrement on the ground.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 4 May 2018
• At 1-6 and with the worst record in the NFL, the Lions have lots of work to do and lots of excrement to clean up.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2022
• Trash was strewn about the cell, and the toilet was filled with excrement.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• This is gross — the excrement from pecan aphids feasting on the trees.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021
• At least one of the rooms had dark streaks and handprints on the walls that appeared to be excrement.
  — Maya Alleruzzo and Salar Salim, Fox News, 29 Apr. 2018
• At the first whiff of fresh excrement, these beetles fly in.
  — Fiona McMillan, National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• Part of the comedic element of the toy are its dog excrement jokes.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• The guano, which is dark enough to see from space, inspired the scientists to use the streaks of excrement to track down the colonies.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• The floors and walls of the room were covered in excrement and the dogs had a variety of health problems.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 14 June 2017
• But also, more than 100 pieces of roach excrement on the kitchen walls by the walk-in cooler.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
• One study found that 10% of a two-year-old pillow’s weight is due to dust mites and their excrement.
  — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, TIME, 24 June 2024
• The workers slept right here, among piles of excrement dredged up from the darkness.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Then the fear that I’d be hit with a spray of the excrement that with each strike of his foot on the mattress burst into tiny pieces.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• They’ve been drugged, beaten, left to lie in their own excrement in tiny cages.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2016
• The high-class avian excrement hit the fan and the Swans ejected him from their social circles.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The discovery of the excrement is believed to be the first case of gastropods feeding on the rust.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• Tucked in the mail one recent day was a letter packed with excrement.
  — Griffe Witte, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Derive excrement joke, Send your quip to the Empress, win a bad prize.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Their excrement sat in piles below each of their cages.
  — Kyle Swenson, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 July 2017
• Back then, the New York City streets were made of dirt, covered in horse excrement, as well as rotting garbage.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
• One man, apparently caught up in the moment, leaned down and, with the urging of the crowd, ate a piece of horse excrement off the ground.
  — Greg Bishop and Ben Baskin, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• By Your Name, in which one man massages the excrement fromhis lover’s bowels.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
• What’s worse than having to clean urine and excrement off the floor (hopefully only the floor) of your own house?
  — Helene Rubinstein, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• The webworms are gone and only pellets of excrement remain in the web.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
• In one of the movie’s most outrageous scenes, the Sasquatch brood gets upset and starts throwing its excrement.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
• That may be why the program struggled to identify some of the dog excrement.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 17 Apr. 2020
• The creatures may have scavenged the dead fish’s brain, leaving a profuse amount of excrement in their wake.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• The Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold cans of his excrement.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• For Martin Luther, who famously threw his inkpot at the Devil, Satan was as elemental and omnipresent as excrement.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• That customer suspected the stains were dirt or mold, not excrement, and the Barons were able to resolve the issue without incurring another negative review.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024