How to Use chamber pot in a Sentence
chamber pot
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Some of those who were enslaved slept in the same bedroom as their enslavers, helping them to the chamber pot in the middle of the night.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2021
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There are wine jugs and kitchen utensils, chamber pots and tiny toothpicks carved from bone.
—Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
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It was considered a second step to the chamber pot, and both items were kept in the bedroom or dressing chamber.
—Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2018
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Molly farts a bit, gets her period, and uses the chamber pot.
—Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
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Enlarge / Microscopic egg of a whipworm found in the residue lining the chamber pot.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
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Wash basins and chamber pots remain undisturbed in officers' rooms.
—Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2019
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Perhaps that's why Hough decided to remove a large slice of Mary Lynch's skin from her thighs, tossing them into a chamber pot to better preserve them.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2020
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Well ponds must be kept clean: women are strictly forbidden to scrub chamber pots or wash their undergarments in them.
—Lu Yang, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
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Rather than risk sitting in an outhouse next to Bogart, Hepburn opted to use a chamber pot in her cabin instead.
—Curbed, 1 Feb. 2022
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In a villa just outside of Pompeii, archaeologists have found a tiny room with sparse furnishings: three beds, a chamber pot and a wooden chest.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
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In addition to the chest and chamber pot, the team found a chariot shaft and amphorae (clay vessels with pointed bottoms), including a collection of eight jugs crammed into a corner.
—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
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Enlarge / Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
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During the Renaissance, heels and platforms could give men a competitive advantage among their shorter peers, as well as elevate them from the streets, where people poured out their chamber pots.
—Bonnie Wertheim, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2017
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The room, in an excellent state of preservation, contains three wooden beds and a series of other objects including amphorae, ceramic pitchers and a chamber pot.
—CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
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Beneath the beds, archeologists discovered amphorae used to store personal possessions, ceramic jugs and a chamber pot.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
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