How to Use urinate in a Sentence

urinate

verb
  • And my first thought was, Oh crap, the cat's gonna take a dump or urinate.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Straining to urinate places pressure on the pelvic floor.
    — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 3 June 2026
  • The man was working on a nearby roof and was looking for a place to urinate.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 29 May 2017
  • Not all trouble urinating looks the same.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And there was the time when an escort was commanded to urinate in her mouth.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 3 July 2025
  • Dorie can wait hours to urinate, even when brought outside several times a day.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 6 June 2018
  • Generally, try to find a grassy area or curb for your dog to urinate on and stick to it.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Things appeared bleak for the singer when he was accused of urinating on the girl in the video.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 17 July 2017
  • Inmates slept one to a cell and urinated in buckets.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Then pronghorn will urinate and defecate in the slight depression.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Inmates are forced to urinate in a bottle and leave the bottles at a corner in the cell.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Delivery drivers who urinate in bottles to keep up with the pace of work.
    — Emily Peck, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • On the way to the police station, while in a cruiser, the man urinated in his pants.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
  • Oh, and turkey vultures also urinate and defecate on their own legs to keep cool.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Maintain a proper posture when urinating with feet flat on the floor and back straight.
    — Violeta Valdés, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
  • She was taken out of the back seat to be handcuffed and, at that point, dropped her pants and squatted to urinate.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Peregrine Fund Vultures urinate on their own feet to stay cool.
    — National Geographic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The first was Daniel Philip, who claimed that Cassie once asked him to urinate in his mouth.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 21 May 2025
  • For example, dogs urinating on lawns causes the grass to go brown fast.
    — The Spruce, 25 June 2026
  • Or train the dogs to urinate in a specific, small area to limit the damage to the rest of the lawn.
    — NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • One goes to urinate, washes their hands and looks into the bathroom mirror.
    — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Fearful dogs may show the whites of their eyes and urinate on themselves when approached by other pets.
    — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Stingley was foaming at the mouth and had urinated through his clothes.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026
  • One or more party guests urinating on the Powells’ garbage cans.
    — Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
  • Cal returns returns home and proceeds to urinate in the foyer.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Just like some parents, the researchers used a sweet treat to coax the cows to push through a gate and urinate in a special pen.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • One of the men walked onto the porch and began to urinate on the flag while the other man recorded him, the video shows.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The man appeared to urinate on the geyser while a park ranger repeatedly yelled at him to get to safety.
    — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • This can take up to eight hours but will help remove trace odors that attract the animal back to the same spot to urinate.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The child may be thirstier than usual, drink a lot of water and urinate more frequently.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022

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