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Example sentences for: lavatory

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

While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
With reference to an analogous matter, I have seen references to a real Mr. Thomas Crapper, who was supposed to have designed our modern day lavatory.
[Note to non-British readers: spend a penny is a British idiom meaning go to the lavatory, obviously a reference to the ubiquity of pay toilets.]
With the cooperation of the Jordanian secret service, a special lavatory was prepared for Assad's exclusive use, with a urinal that led not into a drain but into a specimen jar.
You'll come to no harm if you use tissues as lavatory paper, but your plumbing might--while the strengthening cellulose fibers they contain are biodegradable, facial tissues don't break down as quickly as toilet tissue, so flushing is not recommended.