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How to use outhouse in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Outhouse means an outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit. Example: “P.U., that outhouse gives me the heebie-jeebies!”

Examples of outhouse by meaning

nounAny outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.

  • The children had explored the gardens and the outhouses thoroughly before they were caught and cleaned for tea, and they saw quite well that they were certain to be happy at the White House.1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It
  • There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine
  • Dumbledore pointed toward a run-down stone outhouse where the Weasleys kept their broomsticks.2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

verbTo house in a separate building.

  • In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)
  • The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38

More sentences with outhouse

  • P.U., that outhouse gives me the heebie-jeebies!From the entry heebie-jeebies
  • Built like the proverbial brick outhouse, it nevertheless had "no energy-absorbing design features".2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42. From the entry built like a brick outhouse
  • Have you ever tried packing 13 people into a wooden outhouse?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
  • I had been given another job – the digging of a drophole for the outhouse toilet.1998, Witi Ihimaera, Bulibasha. From the entry drophole
  • Bean held court in an outhouse, the prisoner seated on a bale of flint hides.1906, Andy Adams, “Rangering”, in Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories. From the entry hold court
  • A shovel, a polaski (fire axe) and a gieke can for putting out campfires, disinfectant for cleaning outhouses and picnic tables.2011, Sid Marty, Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook, page 285. From the entry polaski
  • "No more midnight treks to the outhouse.2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow. From the entry close-stool
  • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9. From the entry scrip
  • The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.1907, A. E. W. Mason, The Broken Road. From the entry loophole
  • As soon as he got into the outhouse and began doing his business he heard the sound of a car coming down the road.2005 May 10, Colleen Dione Taylor-Rowe, Captured Moments in Time: And Songs from the Heart, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry real quick
  • More toiletty in appearance than a simple hole in the ground, the baño had a seat and most of the other elements of an outhouse, sans walls.2011, Merrill Markoe, “Roiling on a Rive”, in Cool, Calm & Contentious, New York, N.Y.: Villard, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry toiletty
  • If you got the urge in the middle of the night, you thought long and hard about getting dressed and making that long run to the outhouse.2000, James W. Marlin, On the Other Hand: An Autobiography. From the entry thunder mug
  • Uncle Charles smoked such black twist that at last his nephew suggested to him to enjoy his morning smoke in a little outhouse at the end of the garden.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC. From the entry twist
  • If it be winter, or settled wet weather, the hen must, if possible, be kept indoors, or else be cooped under a dry shed or outhouse.1904, Lewis Wright, The Practical Poultry Keeper, page 52. From the entry cooped

Meaning of outhouse

  1. noun An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
  2. noun Any outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.
  3. verb To house in a separate building.

Full definition of outhouse

Questions about outhouse in a sentence

How do you use outhouse in a sentence?
Outhouse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “P.U., that outhouse gives me the heebie-jeebies!”
What is a short sentence with outhouse?
“"No more midnight treks to the outhouse.”
What does outhouse mean?
Outhouse means an outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.

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