outhouse
Example Sentences
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We used candles, pumped water and had an outhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Following his arrest in May 2024, police found £75,000 in a safe hidden in a brick outhouse in the rear garden of his home in Crankwood Road.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
The heated toilet seats and water must have been unimaginable 125 years ago when they dug their first outhouse as homesteaders in North Dakota.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2024
Because if I did, I'm pretty sure I'd just be chilling in an outhouse while he was inside his cabin writing "Yellowstone," you know what I mean?
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2023
Dad offered to tear down the old outhouse so nobody would think to sing that stupid song again, but I said leave her be.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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