excrement

Species have been named for ex-spouses, for excrement, for wordplay and puns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Amid gasps and sobbing from the public gallery, prosecutor Steven Ball outlined the "chaotic" conditions inside the parlour, including how mould was seen on coffins and both excrement and bodily fluids on floors.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

The smell is "like excrement," said 68-year-old Patricio Velasquez, who shuts himself inside every summer due to the odor emanating from the dump.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Passenger pigeons traveled in massive assemblies, billions strong, that rained enough excrement to force people indoors.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A path blooming with cow patties is likely to be less grueling than one marked only by the dark, nutlike excrements of goats, who can get up anywhere.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

There, old wounds on trilobite shells abound, and fossil excrements, likely produced by trilobites, contain yet more trilobite shells.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

However, I’m placing dog turds at the bottom of my list because I grew up in Rome, where I stepped on excrements more times than I can count.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

Our liquid excrements are salty, we can’t drink saltwater.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2016

"Sal nitrum is salt which is boiled out of the earth, especially fat earth, as in stables, or any place of excrements."

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert