feces

Example Sentences

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Many dogs stepped around feces to greet potential adopters through the bars of their kennels.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Transmission most often occurs when people or pets ingest food or water contaminated with raccoon feces.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

All three parasites spread through poor sanitation, typically when food, water, or hands are contaminated with human feces.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

Higher in the mountains, the evidence of BTAZ’s grazing was even clearer: swaths of ground chewed and trampled bare, discarded plastic piping, cow feces and bones in an unfenced creek.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

Some farming populations make it even easier for their own fecal bacteria and worms to infect new victims, by gathering their feces and urine and spreading them as fertilizer on the fields where people work.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond