defecate
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"We've been encouraged to reduce all the time by fencing cattle away from riverbanks, so they don't tread the banks and defecate in the river," said Henry Collins, of the Wylye Valley Farmers.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
In the cooler months of the year — historically from April to September — snakes become sluggish and may not eat, drink, defecate or even move for weeks at a time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
The gulls on Anacapa are no different — they squawk, screech, fight and defecate everywhere you can see them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
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
Since you don’t say otherwise, I assume when he defecates it is in the toilet.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2015
There’s even a bit of potty humor: A Torosaurus defecates onstage.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2014
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
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
The scientists have fed the bats pawpaw fruit and, once the bats have defecated on the tarpaulin, they take swabs of the bright orange droppings and store them in test tubes.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
As parts of the fruit that we actually take into our mouths, strawberry seeds are tiny and inevitably swallowed and defecated, but other seeds are large enough to be spat out.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Suddenly, Stacy must confront that cabin and her dread of defecating in an outhouse.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Toilets crawling with rats, maggots and flies became so noxious that neighbors began defecating on the surrounding dirt roads.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
"This is about public decency, public dignity, we can't have people defecating behind hedges," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
His top hat tumbled; urinating, defecating, Perry O’Parsons entered eternity.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
