How to Use latrine in a Sentence
latrine
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Someone had flushed a bird along the trail to the latrine.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Sep. 2020
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There was a run on toilet paper, lines for the latrines.
—Verge Staff, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
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Travelling to the mess tent and the latrine required hooking in to ropes.
—Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
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Protein from the larvae crawling around in the latrine?).
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2016
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Tree rings from a wooden structure around the remains of the latrine dated to 1356 CE.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
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The makeshift latrines were originally housed in the yard of a city house but ended up sealed beneath the ground when a road was built in the 1680s.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
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The aid workers record the number of residents in each tent, as well as the number of latrines and kitchens in the settlement.
—Abby Sewell, Wired, 20 Jan. 2020
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Although the tubewells are often alarmingly close to the latrines, that seems to be fine.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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A pair of latrines adjoin an open courtyard that doubles as a lunch and recreation area.
—Dayo Olopade, WIRED, 12 Nov. 2013
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Fesler just wants to keep his car from turning into a latrine.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 July 2019
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But the gains decline to 60 cents if, as often happens, the new social norms fail to take hold and the latrines fall into disuse.
—The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
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As Yemi Nakagawa’s belly swelled, she was forced to use group showers and a latrine dug in the ground.
—Hannah Kirshner, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
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Following an eight-month siege, French forces collapsed part of the structure and entered the main fortress via its latrines.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
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Some of the latrines are piled high with fly-riddled excrement, which seeps out the sides during downpours.
—Kristen Gelineau, Fox News, 17 July 2018
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Sewage nearly overflows in the few portable latrines lining one side of the camp.
—ExpressNews.com, 17 Nov. 2019
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Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
—New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
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Bangladesh’s neighbour, India, has subsidised and built a great many latrines.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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The remains of an old CCC latrine stand amid a meadow of tiny, violet flowers called bluets.
—Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
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The camps were surrounded by open-pit latrines, and the smell of sewage was overpowering; children lay around with flies on them.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
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And parasites in a castle latrine in Cyprus attest to the poor health endured by crusaders.
—Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
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Solitary confinement cells were tiny, a meter wide and two meters long with a latrine hole at one end.
—Bassem Mroue, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2018
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The self-sealing plastic molds come in three varieties and can embed in a concrete base around any open latrine.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2021
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When the rains come, latrines are likely to overflow, bringing the risk of cholera and other waterborne diseases.
—Somini Sengupta and Henry Fountain, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
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The two-story yurt, set at an elevation of 5,000 feet, is stocked with firewood and has a boot-drying rack and a treehouse latrine.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020
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During a short walk, Abdul Noor, an 85-year-old farmer, saw three dead bodies stuffed into what might have been a latrine hole and covered with soil.
—Time, 2 Feb. 2018
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Bangladeshi villages are studded with small pit latrines and tubewells for water.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
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Workers at these farms often live in squalid conditions and use open latrines, and they are sometimes cheated out of their pay.
—Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
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Bonds organized players to lift up the latrine while Redell was still inside.
—Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2020
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Only wealthy elites had toilets, which typically consisted of a hole carved into a slab of stone with a latrine cesspit below for storing the waste.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
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The government provided electricity and water and aid groups had built latrines, but residents had to deal with snakes, rats and bugs, Mr. Omar said.
—Nimet Kirac Nicole Tung, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
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