Excrete

"Excrete" in a Sentence (5 examples)

When someone is diabetic, they excrete sugar in their urine.

The famous white-sand beaches of Hawaii, for example, actually come from the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand.

I occasionally excrete concrete: this is not strange.

Cows fed on Brachiaria excrete much less methane, a greenhouse gas. And Cruz says by rotating pineapple and brachiaria grasses every 6 to 8 years, he has tripled the number of cows per hectare and eliminated the use of commercial fertilizers.

Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt.

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