How to Use chamber pot in a Sentence

chamber pot

noun

• The room contained only a chamber pot, a wooden chest and three beds.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• 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
• There are wine jugs and kitchen utensils, chamber pots and tiny toothpicks carved from bone.
  — Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Molly farts a bit, gets her period, and uses the chamber pot.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
• Enlarge / Microscopic egg of a whipworm found in the residue lining the chamber pot.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
• Wash basins and chamber pots remain undisturbed in officers' rooms.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Enlarge / Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Beneath the beds, archeologists discovered amphorae used to store personal possessions, ceramic jugs and a chamber pot.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024