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How to use loo in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, interjection, verb

Loo means a lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation. Example: “I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?”

Examples of loo by meaning

nounA lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

  • Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.2006, Garth Thompson et al., The Guide′s Guide to Guiding, 3rd edition, page 160

nounA toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

  • The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters.2009, Katharina Kane, Lonely Planet: The Gambia and Senegal, page 275
  • Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.2010, Meegan Jones, Sustainable Event Management, page 206

nounA lieutenant.

  • I asked my loo to let me escort you in.2012, J. D. Robb, New York to Dallas, Penguin, →ISBN, page 91

More sentences with loo

  • I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?From the entry duck
  • We need to buy some more loo rolls; we've run out.From the entry loo roll
  • I shouldn’t have drunk so much, I’m bostin for the loo!From the entry bostin
  • “Lordy loo, sugar,” she said from her wheelchair, her face all crumpled up like a dried-out apple.2012, Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come. From the entry Lordy loo
  • Can I go to the loo?" Teacher: "Go lah go lah!".1998 August 14, mrbrown, “The Great Singlish/Singapore Dialect Dictionary”, in mrbrown.com, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2017. From the entry 'cher
  • American English for elevator 'lift', British English for loo); diaintegrative for foreign borrowings used in English (e.g.1991, “Lexicography”, in Kirsten Malmkjær, editor, The Linguistics Encyclopedia, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 295…. From the entry diastratic
  • Yes, well, had I known you were having a row with the loo, I would have batmanned the other direction.2014, Andris Bear, Lust. From the entry batman
  • If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos.2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213. From the entry luncher
  • The guardsman and plastic loo seat were hurled one way, the loo paper another, but there were no injuries.2005 May, Benedict le Vay, “Eccentric Pastimes”, in Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide to Britain’s Follies and Foibles, 2nd edition…. From the entry thunderbox
  • Loo—” Then there was the sound.2000 March 11, Benni Pierce, “Fractured Fiction: Controlling Fate’s Destiny”, in Jacob Chabot et al., editors, The Omen, volume 14, number…. From the entry humanflesh
  • This place isn't for looky loos.1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System. From the entry looky-loo

Meaning of loo

  1. noun A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
  2. noun A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
  3. interjection A cry to urge on hunting dogs.

Full definition of loo

Questions about loo in a sentence

How do you use loo in a sentence?
Loo is used as a noun, interjection and verb. For example: “I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?”
What is a short sentence with loo?
“Loo—” Then there was the sound.”
What does loo mean?
Loo means a lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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