orifice

Example Sentences

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Second, smaller animals are expected to pee in droplets because their orifice is too tiny to emit anything thicker.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Instead they have a single orifice called a cloaca that is used for defecation as well as reproduction in both males and females.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2023

Although only about 1,600 people died of Ebola over those years, the grotesque nature their deaths — copious hemorrhaging from every orifice — has lent the disease a frightening reputation.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016

There is just dangerously hot air rushing out of every orifice.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2016

Smoke was leaking from every orifice in his head.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer