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How to use defecate in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, adjective

Defecate means to excrete feces from one's bowels. Example: “Max could no longer move his hind legs and was defecating all over the floor, so Jeff thought it was time to help him along.”

More sentences with defecate

  • Max could no longer move his hind legs and was defecating all over the floor, so Jeff thought it was time to help him along.From the entry help along
  • The chameleon crabbled to the middle of the coffee table and defecated.2016, Edward Ahern, Capricious Visions. From the entry crabble
  • While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead.2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious. From the entry flatulate
  • Today, Sora clips depict the civil rights activist wrestling with MLK, talking about defecating on himself and making crude jokes.2025 October 17, Niamh Rowe, “‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts”, in The…. From the entry MLK
  • Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia. From the entry flatulate
  • And swallows are the spring's agents, nesting in the rafters, eating, defecating, procreating, producing prodigious flocks of swallowlings.1989, Stephen Owen, Yuwen (Suo'an), Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire (page 92). From the entry swallowling
  • The second part means ‘to defecate’.2020 December 21, Emma Wilkin, “lalochezia”, in Emma Wilkin. From the entry lalochezia
  • Since free-roaming cats may come into the yard, any sandboxes should be covered when not in use to prevent cats from defecating in them.2012, The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health - Volume 1, →ISBN, page Robert H. Friis. From the entry free-roaming
  • The addition of tannin to defecated and undefecated juice before pasteurization hastened the rate of clearing slightly, but not enough to warrant its use.1914, Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, volume 91, page 54. From the entry undefecated
  • Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University…. From the entry pickyness

Meaning of defecate

  1. verb To excrete feces from one's bowels.
  2. verb To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
  3. verb To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.

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Questions about defecate in a sentence

How do you use defecate in a sentence?
Defecate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Max could no longer move his hind legs and was defecating all over the floor, so Jeff thought it was time to help him along.”
What is a short sentence with defecate?
“The second part means ‘to defecate’.”
What does defecate mean?
Defecate means to excrete feces from one's bowels.

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