Faeces is an English word with synonyms like excrement or excreta. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Faeces in a sentence
Faeces meaning
Alternative spelling of feces.
Synonyms of Faeces
Using Faeces
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of feces.
- Useful related words include: fecal matter, excrement, excreta, excretion.
- In the example corpus, faeces often appears in combinations such as: faeces and, human faeces, faeces in.
Context around Faeces
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Faeces
- In this selection, "faeces" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, human, dog, urine, seeping, adding and caked stand out and add context to how "faeces" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and human faeces in the and and rat faeces were also. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "faeces" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with faeces
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Independent councillor Mr Terry said: “E-coli is directly linked to faeces, human waste. (14 words)
Mice and rat faeces were also found in the cool room near raw onions and scattered throughout the business. (19 words)
The sink was blocked with dirty water to the top and what appeared to be faeces caked to the toilet. (20 words)
The report goes on to reveal that "the back garden grassed areas and paths were inaccessible to people due to a very large number of dog faeces", adding that they had been there for a while "as they were starting to decompose". (42 words)
Our local council only allows black refuse sacks outside the homes, which get torn apart by crows and foxes, so we often deal with litter scattered all along our street, sometimes faeces and rotten milk splattered up our front door and doorstep. (42 words)
To do this doctors collect faeces from a healthy donor, treat it to remove anything potentially harmful — and transplant it into the recipient's gut (usually via a tube passed through the nose down, or up the rectum). (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
A stoma is an opening on the abdomen that can be connected to either the digestive or urinary system to allow waste (urine or faeces) to be diverted out of the body.
Pensioner Fraser Miller spotted a murky brown liquid containing human faeces seeping from a manhole cover outside his flat in Hoo - and immediately reported it to Southern Water.
Samantha said she is “fed up” of having to watch where she walks in order to avoid stepping in the dog faeces.
Signs to look out for include red or brown stains from bed bug faeces or dead bugs, shed skin from the bugs, small yellow bugs and of course, actual bed bugs which are roughly 6mm in size.
The larvae live in snails and slugs, as well as the faeces from infected dogs or foxes which is where the slugs and snails pick it up from.
The report goes on to reveal that "the back garden grassed areas and paths were inaccessible to people due to a very large number of dog faeces", adding that they had been there for a while "as they were starting to decompose".
The sink was blocked with dirty water to the top and what appeared to be faeces caked to the toilet.
To do this doctors collect faeces from a healthy donor, treat it to remove anything potentially harmful — and transplant it into the recipient's gut (usually via a tube passed through the nose down, or up the rectum).
While cats pooping in gardens may not seem like a big problem, cat faeces can contain a parasite called toxoplasmosis.
According to Mr Schuurman, he would have cleaned up faeces, but he did not know what the police expected him to do with his canine's urine.
A stoma is a surgically-created opening made on the abdomen, which is made to divert the flow of urine and faeces.
Behaviours they have been issued for include racial abuse, religious harassment, throwing vomit and faeces, anti-social/aggressive behaviour, spitting, sexually-inappropriate touching, physical abuse and threats to staff.
High levels of the intestinal enterococci bacterium indicate there is sewage and human faeces in the water, which can cause sickness and diarrhoea.
Independent councillor Mr Terry said: “E-coli is directly linked to faeces, human waste.
Mice and rat faeces were also found in the cool room near raw onions and scattered throughout the business.
On a date in August this year, the child was allegedly exposed to urine, faeces, blood, decaying food and dog carcasses, one of which was “significantly decomposed”.
Our local council only allows black refuse sacks outside the homes, which get torn apart by crows and foxes, so we often deal with litter scattered all along our street, sometimes faeces and rotten milk splattered up our front door and doorstep.
So if you ever do spot blood in your faeces then you should speak with a doctor as it could save your life.
The aerial view shows a female humpback relaxing near our boat, right next to a large volume of floating faeces.
The force of a toilet flushing produces thousands of tiny aerosol droplets which can contain urine, faeces, and infectious particles that contaminate surfaces up to five feet away.
Common combinations with faeces
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- faeces and 11×
- human faeces 9×
- faeces in 8×
- and faeces 6×
- or faeces 5×
- faeces to 4×
- dog faeces 4×
- the faeces 4×
- faeces on 4×
- with faeces 4×