Excreta is an English word with synonyms like excretion or excrement. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Excreta in a sentence
Excreta meaning
Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
Synonyms of Excreta
Using Excreta
- The main meaning on this page is: Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
- Useful related words include: body waste, excretion, excrement, excretory product.
- In the example corpus, excreta often appears in combinations such as: human excreta, excreta is.
Context around Excreta
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Excreta
- In this selection, "excreta" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, human, eradicate, whale, related, till and deserves stand out and add context to how "excreta" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include animal excreta deserves more and collects human excreta which is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "excreta" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with excreta
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Animal excreta deserves more credit that people give it. (9 words)
The leftover maggot excreta is collected for high-quality fertilizer, while the maggots themselves are harvested for nutritious animal feed. (20 words)
The attempts to make lipsticks from reptile excreta and a coloured enamel to coat teeth were turned into short stories. (20 words)
Odisha: suspected of practicing witchcraft, mob beat six men, forced tp eat human excreta - जादू-टोने के शक पर 6 बुजुर्गों संग अमानवीयता, पहले जबरन खिलाया मानव मल, फिर तोड़ डाले दांत! (47 words)
Matt Patricia Maintains Strong Troll Game, Makes Lions Practice OutdoorsIf Matt Patricia has made anything clear this year, it's that he does not give one speckle of excreta what outside critics say about him. (35 words)
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, prohibits use of any individual for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta till its disposal. (34 words)
Odisha: suspected of practicing witchcraft, mob beat six men, forced tp eat human excreta - जादू-टोने के शक पर 6 बुजुर्गों संग अमानवीयता, पहले जबरन खिलाया मानव मल, फिर तोड़ डाले दांत! (47 words)
Example sentences (14)
Manual Scavenging broadly refers to the practice of manually cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling in any manner, human excreta from dry latrines, railway tracks and sewers in the Indian social milieu.
The director stressed the need for all house owners in the state to have hygienic toilets and latrines within their premises so as to eradicate excreta-related diseases.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, prohibits use of any individual for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta till its disposal.
Odisha: suspected of practicing witchcraft, mob beat six men, forced tp eat human excreta - जादू-टोने के शक पर 6 बुजुर्गों संग अमानवीयता, पहले जबरन खिलाया मानव मल, फिर तोड़ डाले दांत!
The photographer also said that whale excreta is usually a ‘pinky-red colour’ and that he has never heard or seen such colour.
Agriculture generates around 94% of all ammonia emissions in the EU, the vast majority of which comes from livestock excreta, while mineral fertiliser application accounts for approximately 20%.
Animal excreta deserves more credit that people give it.
I have a friend who told a humorous story about being in a meeting where someone was speaking of things that he knew to be untrue, downright bovine excreta.
Matt Patricia Maintains Strong Troll Game, Makes Lions Practice OutdoorsIf Matt Patricia has made anything clear this year, it's that he does not give one speckle of excreta what outside critics say about him.
The leftover maggot excreta is collected for high-quality fertilizer, while the maggots themselves are harvested for nutritious animal feed.
A composting toilet collects human excreta which is then added to a compost heap together with sawdust and straw or other carbon rich materials, where pathogens are destroyed to some extent.
For practical purposes, when actual defecation and excreta are spoken of, it is either through creative euphemism or with a vague and fairly rigid literalism.
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm, Sweden, page 88 A composting toilet tries to process the excreta in situ although this is often coupled with a secondary external composting step.
The attempts to make lipsticks from reptile excreta and a coloured enamel to coat teeth were turned into short stories.
Common combinations with excreta
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- human excreta 4×
- excreta is 2×