How to Use fecal in a Sentence

fecal

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• The disease spreads when a person ingests fecal matter, even tiny amounts, often in food and drink.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Of those, 32 of the wells contained fecal matter from livestock or humans.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2019
• This is true for respiratory droplets, direct skin contact, and sometimes, fecal or oral spread.
  — Keith Joiner, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2020
• Borers are easy to distinguish from disease because the sap is mixed with frass (the debris and fecal matter left behind by boring insects).
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2019
• Both of these categories contribute to the livestock fecal waste estimations.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2020
• Hepatitis A is transmitted through fecal matter, sometimes by people who prepare food with unwashed hands.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Doctors say the pneumonia-like virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets or fecal matter.
  — Anna Fifield, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2020
• The scent is what Aftel describes as a fecal floral, meaning it’s ‘‘kind of poopy, but kind of floral,’’ and creates a complicated musky aroma when used in perfume.
  — Antonia Noori Farzan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• Coronaviruses not only spread via the air and the respiratory tract, but also if fecal matter comes in contact with another creature’s mouth.
  — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2020
• While swabs from cows, milk, a dead bird, and a sample of fecal slurry showed signs of H5N1, all of the nasal swabs from the 14 humans were negative.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
• The unprecedented nature of the event has sparked concerns about everything from security and the weather to the level of fecal matter in the Seine.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• An Indiana woman who admitted to injecting her son's IV with fecal matter has been sentenced.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 26 Dec. 2019
• The lungs of early humans also may have been irritated by the high levels of pollen and particles of fecal matter produced by the savanna’s vast herds of grazing animals.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• Their nutrient-rich fecal plumes provide nitrogen, iron and phosphorous to algae at the surface, which increases productivity in areas where whales feed.
  — Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
• The Ohio River faces the same kind of finicky fecal problems.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 23 July 2024
• Pull back sheets and check the mattress and box spring for live bed bugs or black fecal spots.
  — Jerome Goddard, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• If blood is found in the stool with a fecal test, then the person needs a follow-up colonoscopy, Kramer said.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 May 2021
• His bodyguard warned him fecal matter was found left in the bed.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
• Birds can shed the virus through their oral, nasal, urine and fecal secretions.
  — Todd Cornish, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
• The flu can be spread among birds through nasal and oral discharge, as well as fecal droppings.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
• In 2019, the FDA held a meeting that focused on the future of fecal transplants.
  — Kate Sheridan and Allison Deangelis, STAT, 30 Nov. 2022
• But hands can be germy — coated with fecal matter and E. coli.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• The same can be said for the fecal plugs that bears pass after hibernation.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
• Gibbons also notes that the field of fecal transplants in mice remains a mixed bag.
  — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
• Then come the gray seals, whose fecal plumes generate green algal blooms that can be seen from space.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• This is not the first time fecal soup has affected northwest Iowa.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• Nitrogen found in urine and fecal matter, which feeds the growth of algae.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• Rake up bird seed, hulls and fecal matter beneath feeders two or more times a week.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• At-home fecal immunochemical tests look for trace amounts of blood in the stool.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
• Right now, the lab has the capacity to test 30 samples of fecal matter per week.
  — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024