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