latrine
Example Sentences
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The parasite analysis focused on sediment taken from a sewer drain connected to the latrine block of a bath complex dating to the 3rd century CE.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
There was no water, and the stench of the latrine was unbearable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
In Turkey last August, Judd said she met with both Turkish families and refugees living in tents and containers “with one semi-functioning latrine for hundreds of people.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024
The hall’s eventual ruins, which were later attested to as a latrine by the historian Suetonius, are located near and around the square.
From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Sometimes at night he’d startle us, when we forgot he spent his lonely nights in the latrine.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
