defecate
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Citizen Zoo has also set up camera traps and "latrine rafts" - floating rafts where the water voles defecate - to help gather evidence of the population on the Hogsmill.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meanwhile, the locals in the nearby town of Gerlach, Nevada, worried about where all those people planned to defecate.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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
Ducks poop everywhere because they’re impossible to potty train — they don’t have sphincters to control when and where they defecate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
By now the other guests were probably thinking I was the type of person who uses dinner parties as an opportunity to defecate and catch up on my reading.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
In half of Indian households with a working latrine, someone in the family defecates outdoors anyway — mostly men.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2014
The hungry animal plucks and swallows the fruit, walks or flies off, and then spits out or defecates the seed somewhere far from its parent tree.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Over time, he said, they stamped ponds and urinated and defecated in the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
He urinated and defecated into a tin pan.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
And within moments of introducing him, the camera captures him defecating in the open because he has no other choice.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 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
That was followed by a fart noise, calling back to a previous joke about a horse defecating in front of Trump during his state visit to the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
Queenie squats in front of him, defecating loosely, scootching a few inches forward after each fresh burst of liquid.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
