How to Use latrine in a Sentence

latrine

noun

• Someone had flushed a bird along the trail to the latrine.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Sep. 2020
• There was a run on toilet paper, lines for the latrines.
  — Verge Staff, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
• Travelling to the mess tent and the latrine required hooking in to ropes.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• Protein from the larvae crawling around in the latrine?).
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2016
• Tree rings from a wooden structure around the remains of the latrine dated to 1356 CE.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Although the tubewells are often alarmingly close to the latrines, that seems to be fine.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• A pair of latrines adjoin an open courtyard that doubles as a lunch and recreation area.
  — Dayo Olopade, WIRED, 12 Nov. 2013
• Fesler just wants to keep his car from turning into a latrine.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sewage nearly overflows in the few portable latrines lining one side of the camp.
  — ExpressNews.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• Bangladesh’s neighbour, India, has subsidised and built a great many latrines.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• The remains of an old CCC latrine stand amid a meadow of tiny, violet flowers called bluets.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• And parasites in a castle latrine in Cyprus attest to the poor health endured by crusaders.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bangladeshi villages are studded with small pit latrines and tubewells for water.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Bonds organized players to lift up the latrine while Redell was still inside.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024