How to Use excretion in a Sentence

excretion

noun
  • The kidneys are organs of excretion.
  • For month by month, the menstrual excretion takes away her sins.
    — Puja Changoiwala, SELF, 25 Sep. 2017
  • So not exactly sink-sized amounts of nasal excretion, nor coffee cup size even.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That is the excretion of sap that passes through the bodies of those sucking insects.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Soluble fiber in kiwifruit may bind to cholesterol in the blood and increase its excretion.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2025
  • That’s sooty mold, a fungus that grows in the honeydew excretion of either aphids or scale insects.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • By binding to particles in the gut and promoting their excretion through the stool.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026
  • For animal-farm digesters, the process starts with a cow’s ingestion and excretion of feed.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Most are solitary, not hive-dwellers, occupying dirt or wood and some bees line their nests with a plastic-like excretion.
    — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Singing similarly puts force behind the excretion, shooting it out like a geyser.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
  • One room is only for excretion, because groundhogs are very clean animals.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • If both parties orgasmed, all the better as this would help in the excretion of harmful superfluities.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Lead and gout have been linked; lead exposure is suspected as a cause of gout by inhibiting urinary uric acid excretion.
    — Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Blood is filtered in the kidneys, where waste material is removed from plasma for excretion from the body.
    — Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Still, these visions of metabolism leave us stuck absorbing the excretions of a system that hates us.
    — Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • All that death does make one wish to prove that one is alive oneself, and that life offers something more exalted than excretion and suffering.
    — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
  • There can also be less absorption in the elderly and more excretion of magnesium.
    — Willow Jarosh, Ms, Rd, Health, 27 June 2023
  • Fortunately, the excretion is not a danger, much like the cicadas themselves.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 May 2021
  • This is because the body’s rate of PFOS uptake exceeds its rate of excretion.
    — Carrie McDonough, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Note that while the mask isn't vegan, the snail mucin within is obtained by harvesting the snails' natural excretions.
    — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • Higher potassium intake leads to greater sodium excretion, which helps lower blood pressure.
    — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Water helps to prevent dehydration and with the removal of waste through urination and excretion.
    — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Police transported the man to a detox facility and cited him for public excretion.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Fiber decreases cholesterol absorption in the digestive tract and promotes its excretion through the stool.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Fiber reduces cholesterol absorption in your digestive tract and increases its excretion through your stool.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, it is caused by a mutation in an area between genes, resulting in the excretion of a toxic chemical that kills muscle cells.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Elsewhere, bodily excretions of various sorts stand in for punchlines.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Large boluses of food remain in the digestive tracts of competitive eaters for days before excretion.
    — James M. Smoliga, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • For instance, people with a condition known as Gilbert syndrome don’t make enough of a protein that helps prepare bilirubin for excretion.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • Animal excretions such as deer musk; castoreum, from beavers; and civet, from the perineal glands of a mammal of the same name, are no longer considered humane.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024

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