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How to use latrine in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Latrine means an open trench or pit used for urination and defecation. Example: “Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.”

More sentences with latrine

  • Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.2010, Lola Shoneyin, chapter 9, in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Harper Collins. From the entry unroofed
  • The wooden latrine had a red metal roof–the Philmont lingo for which is a “red roof inn”.2010, Joseph Torlucci, Out In God's Country, Tonight - An Adult's Re-Experience of Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico, Lulu.com…. From the entry Red Roof Inn
  • We both arrive at the latrine at the same time to take a constitutional.2006, Tom A. Johnson, To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry constitutional
  • For example, most of the nightsoilers, or latrine cleaners, at Kambove were Lozi from Barotseland.1989, John Higginson, “Copper, Community, and Death”, in A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise…. From the entry nightsoiler
  • Without electrical power for lighting, kids may fall into the deep pits of the latrines through broken or unsteady floorboards.2024 February 17 (last accessed), Jenny Morber, “Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda”, in Upworthy Science, archived from the…. From the entry toilet
  • These are ship guards, trained in directing doddards to the latrines and dealing with drunk noblemen, not killing.2023, Brent Weeks, “The Time and Place for Honor”, in Night Angel Nemesis (The Kylar Chronicles), New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry doddard
  • Crispin, of course, remembered all about his treasure and his conversation with Trepan at the reeksome latrine ditch.2013, Leif HerrGesell, Indians, Rogues and Giants, page 360. From the entry reeksome
  • Haf you already been to ze latrines?1973, Jaroslav Hašek, translated by Cecil Parrott, “In Budapest”, in The Good soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War […], London…. From the entry haf
  • A Uganda Wildlife Authority worker said he spotted Sophia near the camp latrine at around 6.30 pm as it began to get dark.2026 August 13, Nicholas Muhoro, “Dutch Medical Student Sophia Koetsier Vanished in Uganda in 2015. An Unknown Man’s DNA Was Later Found…. From the entry spot
  • The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 176. From the entry BLM
  • In other places it drops down a shute into a strategically positioned barrel, which it will be emptied by the castle gongfermour (latrine pit cleaner).2008, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Vintage Books, page 161. From the entry gongfermour
  • Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates was put to work on the latrine-wagon – ladling liquid, roiling oomska from latrines shared by a thousand people a day.2011 March 5, Caitlin Moran, “I'm so tired by TV journeys”, in The Times. From the entry oomska
  • “‘So much as bat an eye as the toffs trot by, and you’ll be digging latrines,’ pardon mon Français, ‘until it’s George the ruddy Fortieth mincing into Westminster.’”2011, Steve Hockensmith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry pardon mon français
  • The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45. From the entry squamate
  • "I went AWOL because I was browned off with being a latrine orderly and not because I wanted hazardous duty," Hill said in making his plea.1949, Pvt. Hill, AWOL From U.S. Army, Toured Britain Three Years As Lady Fire Eater, Grape Belt And Chautauqua Farmer - 10 June 1949. From the entry browned off
  • The story hence has a number of parallels with tales of Arius and his aftertypes, and must have come to mind when later evildoers were found dead in the latrine.2013, Martha Bayless, Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine. From the entry aftertype

Meaning of latrine

  1. noun An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
  2. noun Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
  3. noun A chamber pot.

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Questions about latrine in a sentence

How do you use latrine in a sentence?
Latrine is used as a noun. For example: “Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.”
What is a short sentence with latrine?
“Haf you already been to ze latrines?”
What does latrine mean?
Latrine means an open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.

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