How to Use fecal in a Sentence

fecal

adjective

• 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
• The signs that Asian carp have an appetite for fecal matter have been there for some time.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The statement added that the fecal matter used in the two patients originated from stool that came from the same donor.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2019
• Nitrogen found in urine and fecal matter, which feeds the growth of algae.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The pumps often disturb the snow and scatter fecal pellets.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• Amid the old tires and mattresses dumped on the riverbank, mounds of rank green weeds gave refuge to birds and grasshoppers, which didn’t seem bothered by the fecal stench.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Black spots could be dried blood, fecal matter, or shedding skin.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2024
• Of those, 32 of the wells contained fecal matter from livestock or humans.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2019
• At this time, it is not known whether the virus can spread through semen, vaginal fluids or fecal matter.
  — The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2022
• The way the virus spreads is from fecal contact and unwashed food, so make sure door knobs and countertops are cleaned with bleach and that food is well cooked, Roberts said.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2024
• Above, a man submerges in the river to bathe away waste, amid marigold offerings, plastic trash, and fecal waste.
  — John Stanmeyer, National Geographic, 17 July 2020
• Dating Andrew, in the fecal sense, was a recipe for disaster.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 20 Aug. 2019
• The animals were in wire cages and walking and sleeping in fecal matter.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 2 Oct. 2019
• Granted, the beetles often emerged covered in fecal pellets, which can't have been pleasant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
• The main reason why beaches get closed for poor water quality is because of fecal pollution, McClellan said, which is measured by the amount of E. coli in the water.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024