washbasin

Example Sentences

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The washbasin is in the room, making the shower and loo less of a squash – the obscured-glass sliding door on the loo/shower affords, well, only minimal privacy, however.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2019

I took the washbasin next to him and looked straight at him in the mirror.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2019

They hid under a washbasin for three days surviving on cookies and a bag of pinol, a cornstarch and chocolate powder mixed with water or milk.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2018

The head teacher there at the time, John Peckham, argued that unisex cubicles opening into a public washbasin area would prevent bullying, vandalism and smoking.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2017

But it was some other sound, she knew, that had woken her—a sharp sound, a part of the dream which had drained away, as she woke, like water out of a washbasin.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams