excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt 
: waste matter discharged from the body
especially
: feces
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Examples of excrement in a Sentence
an ordinance that requires dog walkers to remove their animal's excrement from city streets
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This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.
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Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
Director Shawn Levy stages the cartoonish violence with less verve than David Leitch’s in Deadpool 2, which featured the franchise’s paradigmatic transition — from the close-up of a sphincter to a human eye — making the point that this is all excrement.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024
Trash was strewn about the unit, and the toilet was clogged with excrement.
—Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
Over the summer the museum changed its name to the London Museum as part of a rebrand that included redesigning its logo, which is now a white clay pigeon that has emptied its bowels of golden excrement.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
Director Shawn Levy stages the cartoonish violence with less verve than David Leitch’s in Deadpool 2, which featured the franchise’s paradigmatic transition — from the close-up of a sphincter to a human eye — making the point that this is all excrement.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2024
Trash was strewn about the unit, and the toilet was clogged with excrement.
—Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
Over the summer the museum changed its name to the London Museum as part of a rebrand that included redesigning its logo, which is now a white clay pigeon that has emptied its bowels of golden excrement.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Excrement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excrement. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt
: waste matter discharged from the body and especially from the anus
Medical Definition
excrement
noun
ex·cre·ment
ˈek-skrə-mənt
: waste matter discharged from the body
especially
: feces
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