effluence

Example Sentences

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In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023

The combined effluence of 400-plus Antarctic lakes no doubt exerts a significant influence on the Southern Ocean’s chemistry and biology.

From Scientific American • Apr. 12, 2020

But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

Green sludge came to represent the effluence of government and industry—toxic waste as literal and figurative pollution.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

The divine effluence that lives in each thing is the essence of each thing.

From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Trine, Ralph Waldo