Example sentences for: latrines

How can you use “latrines” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On Meet the Press , Tim Russert said Putin had called the Chechen rebels "dark-skinned people who must be annihilated" and had warned that "they will be found in latrines and killed."

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • Six hundred years ago, toilet designs, though crude, were what we might term today latrines (the Middle English word was laterin from Latin latrina): planks of wood with circles cut into them, placed over a ditch.

  • Hepatitis flourishes because troops don't know how to dig latrines.


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