defecate
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Meanwhile, the locals in the nearby town of Gerlach, Nevada, worried about where all those people planned to defecate.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Consider, then, taking in a mammal that can fell a tree, chew through wire, weighs 30 to 60 pounds full-grown, loves to wrestle, needs to swim and can only defecate in water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The dog was untrained and would run around the office and defecate on the carpet, with Yusuf seemingly unwilling to pick up the faeces, ex-employees told BBC News.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Ducks poop everywhere because they’re impossible to potty train — they don’t have sphincters to control when and where they defecate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
Chickens will defecate in their own food if the feeder is lower.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
Keener’s in “Please Give” invites a homeless woman into her apartment to take a shower and the woman defecates on the floor.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
"I mean, somebody who defecates in public has mental health issues. It's as simple as that. If you're socialised, that's the last thing that you would do."
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2018
He’s now on a mission to promote better sanitation in India, a country where half the population still defecates in the open.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2017
Since you don’t say otherwise, I assume when he defecates it is in the toilet.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2015
After all, even when everyone defecates righteously, there are villages upstream from us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
A man tried to wrestle a Canada goose, while a woman defecated at the edge of the park’s lake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The digital pets, which need attending to when they are hungry, sick or have defecated on the virtual floor, grow up as users care for them -- but can die if they are neglected.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Over time, he said, they stamped ponds and urinated and defecated in the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Between us, we have defecated in cat holes, WAG bags, and oil drums alongside service members of different genders and sexual identities.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2025
Children hung their bottoms over the edge and defecated directly onto the squelchy, sucking mud of the exposed riverbed.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
And within moments of introducing him, the camera captures him defecating in the open because he has no other choice.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
They’ve complained about TikTokers trespassing onto countryside farms, tourists defecating on private property and near-fist fights over trailhead parking—not to mention unsafe traffic blockages on narrow roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
An infected individual usually feels restless and spends a lot of time defecating watery diarrhea.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
"They started defecating all over the place - all over the railings," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2024
At first they thought that pigeons defecating in their antenna were to blame, but after chasing away the birds and cleaning out the droppings, the hiss remained.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
