How To Use Droppings In A Sentence

Mr Preston favours sheep droppings matured in a barrel and diluted to the colour of weak tea!
The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point.
He moved silently, on the lookout for tracks, droppings or other animal signs.
I saw pug marks, droppings, I even heard them roar, but for four days I did not see a single lion.
Droppings carry potentially dangerous bacteria such as listeria and salmonella that can cause a range of illnesses including meningitis, pneumonia and lung damage.

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I know it’s possible to turn brain droppings into something you can actually be proud of. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Root of Procrastination
Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquaevitae, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
A hotel worker dons a gas mask to keep out the stench from bird droppings while removing the nests from the rafters.
They are as goners as those who went and are gone, all non-surviving the same except for individual places in the sequence ... like concentration-camp inmates elatedly counting the day's droppings and corpses as if tomorrow isn't their turn next. Shock and awe (Jack Bog's Blog)
The fungus grows best on the surface of moist soils, containing bird and bat droppings.
Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
Even if you have a fitted boat cover, consider adding a tarp over it to protect the cover from bird droppings or other damage.
A similar jumble of more or less everything found near the nest forms, as we know, the barricade of the Manicate Cotton-bee, who is also an adept at using the Snail's stercoral droppings after these have been dried in the sun. Bramble-Bees and Others
Let him spend time in the toughest American prisons amongst the worst of the worst and when he dies (hopefully of old age and not from being excessively sodomized) let a feral dog feed on his body and bury what is left of the remains along with the dog's droppings in a 55 gallon drum of lard. The under pants bomber dilemma
Once paired, they build a nest on the ground of seaweed, eelgrass, and algae, held together by droppings.
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
A small New Jersey organic plant food company (TerraCycle) whose products are made from earthworm droppings and sold in reused soda bottles is the subject of a 177 page ... Scotts Miracle-Gro Sues TerraCycle
Lots of chicken scat and tracks, and caecal droppings. Grouse Diary Entry
Damage to rosette leaves appeared to be by cottontail rabbits, based on droppings associated with the damaged plants.
When my young sons were exploring the streets of Brooklyn, I couldn’t help but wonder how good crushed rock or dried dog droppings could taste when delicious mashed potatoes were routinely rejected.
Pesticide residues, exposure to chemicals at toxic-waste sites, food additives, bird and insect droppings.
Perhaps it was their ability to be pollinated by bees and other insects, or perhaps the way animals that ate their fruit could disperse seeds in their droppings.
She said that large amounts of the virus were known to be excreted in the droppings of infected birds.
The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches.
A fountain oxygenates water to fight algae, the harmful byproduct of geese droppings.
US Airways Center, Phoenix: One location faced possible closure over pest problems after inspectors in December found mouse droppings and, upon reinspection, found "dozens of flies and a live roach" in the dish room. ESPN Exposé Details Awful State Of Sports Arena Food
When he came to Australia in 2005 to be director of the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, he was keen to find and analyse the droppings of the country's megafauna, creatures such as giant marsupial diprotodon and the giant short-faced kangaroo, which became extinct more than 45,000 years ago. "Hooroo, where's the poo?"
Even if you have a fitted boat cover, consider adding a tarp over it to protect the cover from bird droppings or other damage.
He had big splay feet, short stout legs, and a body of such bulging bulbosity that all the droppings of his spoon -- which were many -- were caught on the round of his black waistcoat, which always looked as if it had just been spattered by a gray shower. The House with the Green Shutters
Occupied herons' nests may be readily told by numerous droppings on the ground beneath them.
In healthy birds, uric acid is excreted by the kidneys and is seen as the white material in their droppings.
As a proof of this, I need not do more than state the general fact, that slavery has existed under the droppings of the sanctuary of the south for the last two hundred years, and there has not been any war between the _religion_ and the _slavery_ of the south. My Bondage and My Freedom
Carnevale in Ivrea, streets flowing with the brainish and aromatic combination of orange pulp and horse droppings. Kinaesthesia Diary Entry
An impressive drive to collect night soil, street sweepings and even pigeon droppings allowed farmers to fertilize their pastures. The Times Literary Supplement
The grass beneath the trees was evenly cropped, and pelleted with droppings, so some ruminant herd loitered nearby, keeping the sward neat. Son of a Witch
Legend has it that, struggling with altitude sickness and tropical bugs, he has crawled into caves to rescue music written on goatskins and covered with bird and bat droppings.
Based on past behavior, I think we can expect a extra large load of turd droppings from the Trolls on this thread. Think Progress » Number of millionaires in America increased 16 percent in 2009.
On another occasion, I showed the boys the foot of a baby moorhen that had been eaten by an otter and then showed them some otter spraint (droppings), explaining that otters always spraint when they have finished eating. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Above the water it's a rugged shoreline and a few jagged rocks adorned with bird droppings.
No evidence shows that exposure to pigeon droppings is associated with an increased risk for acquiring cryptococcosis.
Avoid anything involving animal droppings and beware of expensive herbal creams and vitamin formulas which are more likely to lighten your wallet than increase your hair count.
It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.
The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
To get to the cemetery, Pat and I had to negotiate rivers of mud and hillocks of cows' droppings.
Campylobacter is produced in bird droppings but can contaminate meat and skin during processing. The Sun
That the constant droppings wear away a stone is not for their force but persistence spirit.
Likely sites are searched for signs of otter presence such as paw prints or spraint - droppings. River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction
This can happen when apples drop to the ground in an orchard and land in deer droppings or livestock manure.
Frass is an arcane English word meaning the excrement or droppings of insects.
Although there are pine martens in the strath we rarely see them, but occasionally we observe their tracks in mud or droppings in various places. Country Diary: Strathnairn
As a result, whole swathes of the park are blanketed in droppings.
As the rodents scurry about eating Douglas fir seed, their droppings are distributed widely in the burned area of a forest.
The villagers could not explain why scaffolding was required to collect bird droppings from the floor of the cave, and they were not aware of the swiftlets and their unique saliva nests.
Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
Their droppings aren't just a nuisance to employees; they re a potential source of bacterial contamination.
For centuries Japanese geishas have used processed bird droppings to lighten and smooth their skin.
They look like scorpions without tail or claws, and they live from animals' droppings.
The watering of the Cairo streets of late years has been excessive; they are now lines of mud in summer as well as in winter and the effluvia from the droppings of animals have, combined with other causes, seriously deteriorated the once charming climate. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We would busy ourselves feeding the chickens that Bubbie kept in the backyard, or playing the well-known Maria Street baseball which was with the droppings from the horses. My Grandparents' Legacy
And any animal that lives in a cage, from birds to gerbils, will produce droppings that can attract mold and dust.
Their droppings trigger allergy reactions in allergic children. Atopic dermatitis, eczema treatments
Despite the dog droppings from the other residents 'dogs, and the thrash-metal barbecues they liked to hold in the middle of the yard, where people didn't seem able or willing to watch their feet, I did manage to grow a small selection of bushes and vines. Archive 2007-07-01
They rolled down the grassy slope through the rabbit droppings that were probably there when I did my own rolling but was too young to care.
The heads of a household may inhabit a neighbourhood for years without becoming acquainted even with the outward aspect of their neighbours; but in the lordly servants 'halls of the West, or the modest kitchens of Bloomsbury, there will be interchange of civilities and friendly "droppings in" to tea or supper, let the master of the house be never so ungregarious a creature. Birds of Prey
She fiddles with the child safety cap on one, releases it and pops two pills the size of giant mutant rabbit droppings between lips still smudged with red lippie.
Health officials attribute infections in humans to contact with the droppings of sick birds.
Parasitic wasps in search of a caterpillar host may be drawn to their prey by the odor of its droppings.
It's fascinating to watch as the ship pulls up to a buoy, and hauls it out of the water so the accumulations of seaweed and seabird droppings can be removed with a pressure hose.
Did the rodent droppings have any specific shape or form?
Their incessant droppings vexed golfers and "fowled" water hazards, and he couldn't get rid of them. Twenty Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
The officers found numerous rat droppings and structural damage caused by rodent activity.
Droppings carry potentially dangerous bacteria like listeria and salmonella that can cause a range of illnesses including meningitis.
Animal droppings, rotting cabbage or steak and chips, it's all okay for the Diet of worms.
And roach droppings , while almost invisible, can trigger serious respiratory problems.
Sacks and boxes containing food had been gnawed by rats and droppings were found throughout the premises.
A roost tree may hold whole flocks, resulting in droppings and feathers piled barnyard-deep around the trunk. Autumn Gobblers: How To Hunt Turkeys in the Fall
This sensitivity could provide a means to track a dead whale's scent from miles away or find a pinniped rookery or haul-out site from their excrement droppings carried by the oceans currents.
Acid rain and rain that mixes with corrosive bird droppings also tend to do more damage.
One of these, when I knew it many years ago, was black, splattered with pigeon droppings, subjected to dense fogs, evil smells, filth everywhere.
You will probably be asked to monitor your bird's droppings and behavior very carefully, checking daily for any signs of stress-related disease.
Indeed, the only food he could find, and which starvation caused him to digest, was mouldy crusts of bread covered in mouse droppings.
Droppings carry potentially dangerous bacteria like listeria and salmonella that can cause a range of illnesses including meningitis.
This was due to their appeal as a visual spectacle and because they became economically important as high producers of guano, droppings that the country mined and exported around the world for fertilizer.
They assume the form of inanimate objects such as bird droppings, tree bark and leaves to protect themselves.
A measure of Ken's loyalty is evidenced by the fact that we are still friends in spite of an effort I once made to feed him squirrel droppings along with the raisins in my gorp bag.
And, with seabird droppings showering the coastal spinifex each day, there is dense cover for thousands of nesting birds, which include frigates, boobies, noddies and Bridled Terns.
There were also rat droppings and dead insects at the dirt-ridden August Moon restaurant.
He discovered the otter droppings - or spraint, to use the technical term - while checking the site destined to become Grays Wharf, a riverside office development.
You are referring to Parque Juarez and, unfortunately in some people's minds, the city is removing the bird nests from the trees so that a stroll in the park on Sunday does not need head protection from droppings from above. Gardening in San Miguel
Their droppings over the centuries have coated offshore islands with guano hundreds of feet think.
It is transmitted through urine and droppings from infected rodents, and airborne particles.
It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome. The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
Sometimes other, smaller paths intersected with the bridle path, but it was easy to follow the animal droppings.
Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings! Word Magazine - Comments
Here, however, there was nothing; no birds flying overhead, no rodents, no chewed branches or seed husks, no droppings of any kind.
One patient cleaned rodent droppings from her home within two weeks of her illness.
Kick aside a pile of fresh horse droppings, and a small cloud of flies is sure to explode around you.
The floor was thick with bird droppings but this would be roughly cleaned and a layer of straw put down.
Chunks of floriated stonework, carved in medieval times, lie scattered around churches, while empty cans and pigeon droppings litter once-magnificent buildings. Preserving Famagusta
The islands are covered in birg droppings (50 metres deep in some places) called guano which is apparently a good fertilizer. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Biologists, however, have reported some bees taking advantage of other resources, such as animal droppings and carrion.
Exposure to the dust from nesting material and dried droppings can cause psittacosis, a respiratory disorder.
Old footmarks and droppings were recorded in all the salines covered but no sighting or trumpeting heard.
Pesticide residues, exposure to chemicals at toxic-waste sites, food additives, bird and insect droppings.
Even if you have a fitted boat cover, consider adding a tarp over it to protect the cover from bird droppings or other damage.
The students will name and identify elephants and herds as well as dissecting droppings to help discover the animal's migratory patterns.
If you have one or several dogs and want a sanitary way to dispose of droppings without the expense of buying a commercial model here is a do-it-yourself project that can be finished in an afternoon.
A small New Jersey organic plant food company (TerraCycle) whose products are made from earthworm droppings and sold in reused soda bottles is the subject of a 177 page ... Scotts Miracle-Gro Sues TerraCycle
His less successful projects included an attempt to discover a tooth-dye so fashionable ladies could match their smiles to their other accessories and a scheme for synthesizing alloxan - essential to lipstick - from python-droppings.
But soon new seeds are carried in by the wind and on the fur of animals or in their droppings.
Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
Look around the places where you know animals live such as badger setts, foxholes, and rabbit burrows: around these place you may find tracks and droppings.
So now countless English not Welsh, or Scots, or Irish dead patriots are, on body snatcher Harman's orders, shamefully exhumed and 'compacted', i.e. dumped into a large grinding machine, where they are tumbled around and ground into pellets the size of rabbit droppings. Shaping Harriet Harman's Radical Realism to Face the Challenges of the Future...Blah...Blah
He said the droppings had blocked the gutters and downpipes on the building, causing water to seep into the roof timbers.
Their droppings feed the fungus in the ground and can also be a source of infection for people.
Phineas was imprisoned on an island with a giant feast laid before him that he could never eat because the Harpies would steal food from his hands, and befoul the rest with their droppings. Hurricane Katrina and the Lost Prisoners of New Orleans
Pizza boxes would be kicked to knock out the roaches and the mice droppings before being used for a delivery.
At that time, bird droppings—called guano—were, alongside corpses, the most valuable fertilizer around. The Fruit Hunters
And when Steve-O strapped himself into a seat in a Porta-Potty whose bins were chockfull of dog droppings - and then allowed himself to be bungeed up into the air (creating the scatological equivalent of being inside a cocktail shaker) - well, as I said, I was supremely happy that this film did not include an olfactory component. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jackass 3D
The white droppings of birds served as location pointers for eagles and vultures nesting in the craggy reaches.
Imagine windows on which particles of dirt - including tree resin, fingerprints, and bird droppings - disintegrate rapidly when exposed to sunlight.
Found recent fecal and caecal droppings, as well as tracks from that morning, so the grouse had been there. Grouse Diary Entry
Yes | No | Report from bucksnort chillcoot wrote 29 weeks 22 hours ago choose one of the chocolate type energy bars. ones that are moldable. shape into turd sizes, depending on what size animal you are arguing about -- fox or coyote for example. have a rookie in tow, have a expert in tow, find the turds, then argue 'bout what kind of animal left the droppings behind with you and the other scatologist expert, by tasting and eating the "turd" .. clif bars are good and look very real. Practical jokes at deer camp
You may see fecal droppings that look like pen dots, [and] molted skins," says Erdogan. What you should know about bedbugs when you travel
Makeup began to whiten his lapels like droppings on a statue.
A bullwhacker with his team of eight oxen pressed over the new layer of droppings, flourishing a long whip with skillful skyward sweeps. SEASONS OF GOLD
Unless protected, medieval brasses are pitted by their droppings, as are tomb slabs.
The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks.
Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquævitæ, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
As unpleasant as it may seem, the dwellers had become accustomed to their surroundings and the unpleasant odor and stenches of the dirt, grim, mud, and rat droppings.
Mr Ward said the droppings had blocked the gutters and downpipes on the building, causing water to seep into the roof timbers.
And what are WE up against? a couple of Bullingdon hooray-henries and a leadership reject with the political acumen of petrified bird droppings . The Guardian World News
The blurb almost might as well say "the droppings contain a chemical called dihydrogen monoxide". Beauty secret: nightingale droppings.
Small Organic Fertilizer company whose products are made from earthworm droppings is being sued by industry giant Scotts 35 posts from April 2007
The droppings of these millions of birds and animals and the accumulating bodies of the dead have decayed and made a kind of grayish powder. Birdseye Views of Far Lands
The nest is a depression in the moss, and the droppings of the young accumulate to form a rim.
It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.
To rid your dreamland of mites and their droppings, keep bedroom humidity low, wash sheets often in warm water and enclose pillows and duvets in allergen-proof covers.
Acid rain and rain that mixes with corrosive bird droppings also tend to do more damage.
Q: Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings! Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Where seedlings had lined out the field only two days before there were bald seed beds splashed with puddles of goose droppings.
Become familiar with what your bird's normal droppings look like before the switch.
As is reasonably well known, lagomorphs practice refection – that is, they have to ‘rescue’ nutrients from their digested food by ingesting their own caecal pellets (they therefore only produce dry droppings once the food has been through the system twice). Archive 2006-05-01
Makeup began to whiten his lapels like droppings on a statue.
Indeed, the only food he could find, and which starvation caused him to digest, was mouldy crusts of bread covered in mouse droppings.
Citrus attracts the swallowtail butterfly, and the larvae resemble bird droppings, but you will want to leave the young alone for the sake of future butterflies.
Surging prices for synthetic fertilizers and organic foods are shifting attention to guano, an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on this island and more than 20 others off the coast of Peru, where an exceptionally dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds like the guanay cormorant and the Peruvian booby. Sr. de la Torre, I beg to differ!
But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels.
On islands off of the coasts of Peru and Chile, penguin eggs and guano (dry bird droppings) are collected for local use.
They roost on an offshore platform erected to collect guano (bird droppings).
Enzymes in the sanitized droppings help remove dirt and exfoliate dead skin cells.
We were walking in a quiet street when my wife noticed bird droppings on her coat.
It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.
(He seems particularly intent on breaking records for the mostdroppings of thef-bomband for the longest unedited tracking shot of male genitalia.) DVD Review: Observe And Report « Screaming Blue Reviews
These include taking care on farms, where children may come into contact with the bug if it is present in animal droppings.
Fritz Haber was a chemist who realized that there was soon going to be a crisis: the urgent need to find an artificial replacement for bird-droppings, aka guano fertilizer, on which Euro-food supplies depended. American Connections
Lazarus stood just inside the door to the gatehouse, a ramshackle building empty save for a nest of mice whose droppings could be seen strewn across the dusty floors and piled in untidy heaps by the wainscoting. Earl of Durkness
Unless, of course, it's droppings from a giant bat, like the one staring at me through my window. The Glooston Terror
Well, now Mayer is hoping fans will follow him to his blog to keep up with his brain droppings, now not limited to 140 character bursts. Onetime Twitterholic John Mayer explains why he quit
There may have been a few more dried bird droppings, but other than that, everything was the same.
Magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double-kernelled nuts and tallow droppings; would have adopted Voodoo and Oboe had it known anything about them, and showed itself, in every way, one of the most accommodating arrangements that had ever been invented since the birth of the Sea. Soldiers Three

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