How to Use fecal in a Sentence

fecal

adjective
  • 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
  • His bodyguard warned him fecal matter was found left in the bed.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The parasitic worms can spread through the fecal-oral route.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • 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
  • Police said fecal matter was on the floor and throughout the house.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Rake up bird seed, hulls and fecal matter beneath feeders two or more times a week.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The signs that Asian carp have an appetite for fecal matter have been there for some time.
    — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The virus primarily spreads through what’s known as the fecal-oral route.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • First of all, the longterm effects of fecal transplants are unknown.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 28 June 2017
  • 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
  • The toilet would still have been used for fecal collection.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Koalas produce a special type of fecal matter for their babies to eat.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Ohio River faces the same kind of finicky fecal problems.
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 23 July 2024
  • This is not the first time fecal soup has affected northwest Iowa.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
  • This is not the first time fecal soup has affected northwest Iowa.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
  • At-home fecal immunochemical tests look for trace amounts of blood in the stool.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
  • Nitrogen found in urine and fecal matter, which feeds the growth of algae.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There's a couple drops of blood on the floor near the toilet and fecal matter sprayed all over the toilet.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 8 Nov. 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of us is a working dad who survived by learning a new set of skills, one of which was fecal analysis.
    — David Hu, Scientific American, 6 May 2017
  • The animals were in wire cages and walking and sleeping in fecal matter.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The disease spreads when a person ingests fecal matter, even tiny amounts, often in food and drink.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • That fecal slush is then sprayed through the air to fertilize crops, a cost-effective move for farmers.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The air is scented with something floral, rather than — as is too often the case — something fecal.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The petrified hunks went from a brown, fecal color to more of a bone-like ivory, Holbrook said.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2018
  • 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

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