How to Use feces in a Sentence

feces

plural noun
  • Some women smeared feces over the walls and doors of their cells.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Four dogs were caged in the kitchen, lying in urine and feces.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
  • The nuns were strip searched, shackled and held in cells smeared with feces.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • None of these effects was seen in old mice given old mouse feces.
    — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
  • In the hallways their comrades smeared their own feces on the walls.
    — Time, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Their hooves aerate the soil, while their urine and feces enrich it.
    — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • She was forced to eat cat feces, doused with boiling water and seared with an iron.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
  • Black grubs start in the intestines of birds, which transfer the fluke eggs to snails through feces.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
  • Virus particles can be found in feces and can aerosolize when the toilet is flushed.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
  • Depending on diet, about two-thirds of it winds up in urine and the rest in feces.
    — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Birds can shed the avian flu virus through saliva, nasal secretions and feces.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Some teens took those brief moments of human contact to fling their feces and urine at the guards.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2022
  • And nearly a year ago, a pair of swastikas were found drawn in feces in a South bathroom.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Police talked to the woman, who showed them pictures of her own trash can with feces smeared on the lid.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Someone put glue on the door locks of the vehicle and spread dog feces on the door handles.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
  • So the people accept the feces and other nuisances made by the birds.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • And the crowd broke windows and smeared feces on the inside of the Capitol.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
  • The house was found to be in foul condition with feces and bottles of urine, police said.
    — Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • And there’s a river of feces that flows outside the building onto the grass.
    — Joe Cavaretta, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • According to the court report, the teens were also forced to drink urine and eat feces.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The house was in foul condition with feces and liter bottles of urine, police said.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That’s because the animals shed the virus in their urine, feces and saliva.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The smaller dogs roll themselves in feces, hide in the corner shaking.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022
  • The scents of urine, feces and bleach wafted through the halls past communal, cramped quarters.
    — Max Blau, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The dwellings, covered in feces and urine, seemed potentially risky places to live.
    — Stephenie Livingston, Science | AAAS, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The infant was covered in feces and in dire need of food and water, the lawsuit also claims.
    — Laura Studley, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In June, two swastikas were found drawn in feces in a Newton South bathroom.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The scientists fed a slurry of feces to the old mice using a feeding tube twice a week for 8 weeks.
    — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 9 Aug. 2021
  • When sitting on the toilet, pee naturally goes toward the front of the bowl, while feces go to the back.
    — Keely Larson, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2022
  • It was praised as a success and led to a drop in the number of 311 reports for feces removal.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021

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