DROPPINGS


Meaning of DROPPINGS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bird

First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions, but soon ruled these out.

Right in front of our eyes, three bird droppings splattered the windshield.

It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings , which resemble cigarette ash.

Great Swan Island was the product of hundreds of years of bird droppings .

Now stained with bird droppings and weathering, it shows a pair of intertwined and horribly mutated lovers.

The floor was thick with bird droppings but this would be roughly cleaned and a layer of straw put down.

Inside, chamber 2f is thick with bird droppings , feathers, mangled bones and scraps of cloth.

Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the rodents scurry about eating Douglas fir seed, their droppings are distributed widely in the burned area of a forest.

Coyote and bear scat, or droppings , were on the rough rocky gravel of the road.

Gnoya Street still smelled of oil, of horse droppings , soap and axle grease.

I can hear his stomach rumbling, and long to escape among the cobbles underfoot, where lovely horse droppings lie.

Picking up droppings must be done regularly to keep the grazing sweet.

The droppings accumulate in old pillows and mattresses.

The hardwood floor was spotted with droppings , but still in fine shape.

Their droppings lay about like scattered handfuls of raisins.

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