How to Use excrete in a Sentence

excrete

verb
  • Did deer nibble and excrete their way at night through fields?
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 7 May 2018
  • And maybe that meal has been excreted by a microbe.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Plus these birds all drink saltwater and excrete the salt through the tubes.
    — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The mantle then contracts, which excretes waste from the squid’s body.
    — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Dogs like to catch them in their mouths, and the toad excretes the poison into dog's mouth.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The food waste may be excreted so quickly that nary a single fart can be formed.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Your body does not store the excessive biotin and excretes it in the urine.
    — Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2025
  • New plants are spread by birds carrying or excreting the seed on new branch sites.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The kidneys process the water and either store it in the body or excrete it through urine.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
  • Sooty mold is the black residue that grows on the clear, sticky honeydew excreted by the scale.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The bad stuff, like toxins, are filtered out of the blood to be excreted via urine or stool.
    — Men's Health, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Hormones and the glands that excrete them make up your body’s endocrine system.
    — Rachel Reiff Ellis, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Ethylmercury is excreted much more quickly from the body.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 26 June 2025
  • The remaining fluid and waste are excreted in the form of urine.
    — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Most healthy people can excrete any excess magnesium the body does not need through urine.
    — Jennifer Lefton, Ms, Rd/n, Cnsc, Fand, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Excess glucose is then excreted in the urine.
    — Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In the case of one kind of typhus fever, for example, lice excrete the pathogen in their feces.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 3 June 2024
  • Both strategies allow the body to excrete the methanol before it’s turned into formic acid.
    — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The kidneys filter waste products from the blood, which are excreted in urine.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 June 2026
  • Greater salt intake can prompt your kidneys to excrete more calcium.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Elephants eat wild coffee cherries, digest them, and excrete the beans.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • It is not stored in the body, and any excess vitamin C is excreted in the urine.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
  • It is not stored in the body, and any excess vitamin C is excreted in the urine.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 5 Jan. 2026
  • To protect itself, the snail excretes the sulfur, which mixes with iron in the vent water.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Fiber binds to bile acids that are excreted into your intestines, which helps with fat digestion.
    — Julie Pollock, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • The small amount of stable bismuth-209 that remains at the end is excreted in the urine.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Humans sweat to cool ourselves, not to excrete waste products or clear toxic substances.
    — National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Water flows into the body, and any excess is excreted through dilute urine.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The best thing to do now, the priest told her, was to wait and hope that, in due time, her husband would excrete the love potion in his system.
    — Imbolo Mbue, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The corals excrete a hard substance that builds up into a reef, giving the coral polyps and many other creatures a place to live.
    — Damien Cave and Justin Gillis, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017

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