chamber pot

Example Sentences

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And if you’re wondering whether money or brains has more power, there’s a scene in which Henrich uses a chamber pot and smugly orders Victor to “flush that for me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

But the only noteworthy item they found was a chamber pot.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

A luxury padded chair bedecked in pewter and sheepskin was located above his chamber pot and a "Groom of the Stool" relocated his evacuations.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2022

They’d play a game there: setting a chamber pot treacherously between their beds, pretending it was the Atlantic Ocean, and jumping from bed to bed as if escaping from Spain to America.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

The chamber pot dripped and had a bad smell, like the one which always pervaded the yard whenever our neighbours hung urine- soaked blankets and cardboard on fences to dry under the blazing African sun.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane