How to Use toilet paper in a Sentence

toilet paper

noun
  • And for the rest of our lives, the toilet paper hangs over the roll.
    Marisa Kashino, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Don't have the space to store 30 rolls of toilet paper or 12 cans of soup?
    Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Like, the day-in and day-out of who's getting the toilet paper?
    CBS News, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Freeze gathered in the crowd, grabbed a roll of toilet paper and tossed it over the trees.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, there have been signs around the base of the trees telling fans not to toss toilet paper on them.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • In places, the ground was littered with wads of toilet paper.
    Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Tigers had just won the World Series, and ribbons of toilet paper still hung from the trees.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The prices of medicine, milk and toilet paper are soaring.
    New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • This could range from the price of toilet paper to even maybe healthcare.
    Michael Gale, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • While the toilet paper roll has almost run out, this won’t be the end of things for the creators.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • My wife would love the idea of a 30-car garage since I’ve been forced to park our cars on the street to make room for toilet paper.
    Irv Erdos Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Use this easy test: Hold a square of toilet paper up to the fan cover while the fan is running.
    Christina Poletto, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2023
  • When you’re done, drop your toilet paper right into the bag and seal it up.
    Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Believe it or not, this ring is made out of a toilet paper roll.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This is how the extra toilet paper winds up in the guest room closet.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Rochester told the Free Press that the bathrooms sometimes don’t have toilet paper.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2022
  • How will dogs react when faced with a wall of toilet paper?
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Many bidet users use a small bit of toilet paper to pat themselves dry.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
  • One of the first things to disappear from store shelves all over the nation was toilet paper.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Smoke bombs, toilet paper, and two people escaped the stands and made their way onto the field.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
  • One roll of toilet paper takes 36 gallons of water to make.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 21 Nov. 2023
  • As is the case with most things related to toilet paper, this might get a little messy.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The shelf right on top of the toilet was perfect for storing extra rolls of toilet paper.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Just add it to the mental checklist, right after the toilet paper.
    Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2024
  • But such evidence would be as weak as a track suit made out of toilet paper.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • Trees at the main entrance of the high school were found littered with toilet paper around midnight April 29.
    cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • Leah still hasn’t seen the toilet paper David flushed more than a minute ago, so David heads back inside and turns on the downstairs guest tub faucet.
    Trevor Fraser, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • For example: Will the current set of shocks last a few months, like the toilet paper shortage?
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2022
  • Unlike toilet paper, bananas go bad, so shippers weren’t able to ship large volumes in advance of strikes.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Fans head down to the intersection of College and Magnolia and toilet paper the commanding oak trees.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2024

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