How to Use excrement in a Sentence

excrement

noun
  • In the living room was a pool of blood, along with excrement.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
  • This is gross — the excrement from pecan aphids feasting on the trees.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Trash was strewn about the cell, and the toilet was filled with excrement.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • Trash was strewn about the unit, and the toilet was clogged with excrement.
    — Jeff McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • They’ve been drugged, beaten, left to lie in their own excrement in tiny cages.
    — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2016
  • The other is the smell of excrement.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the comedic element of the toy are its dog excrement jokes.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Tucked in the mail one recent day was a letter packed with excrement.
    — Griffe Witte, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Roach excrement was on a wall next to the three-compartment sink.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The workers slept right here, among piles of excrement dredged up from the darkness.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Climbers should be required to use wag bags and carry their own excrement off the mountain.
    — Mark Jenkins, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
  • Some dogs were forced to live in filthy conditions and were left covered in their own excrement.
    — NBC News, 13 May 2020
  • Sands is infamous for smearing the walls of his cell with excrement.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • About 10 or more pieces of roach excrement were on shelves behind the steam table.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • That may be why the program struggled to identify some of the dog excrement.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 17 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The webworms are gone and only pellets of excrement remain in the web.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
  • Dark spots about the size of an asterisk which are bed bug excrement and may bleed on fabric like a marker.
    — Katie Nixon, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like similar toilets, the bowl area is lined with a bag-like film that catches excrement and urine.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • When the snow finally melted, the excrement of a city was left behind.
    — Tim Craig The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In the past, the seabirds laid their eggs in burrows dug into centuries-old layers of their own excrement.
    — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The odd shape keeps the excrement from rolling away, which may help the creatures stake their territory.
    — Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The high-class avian excrement hit the fan and the Swans ejected him from their social circles.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Derive excrement joke, Send your quip to the Empress, win a bad prize.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • So, pretty much all day long, I was forced to watch my naked roommate delight in her excrement.
    — Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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