Example sentences for: lavatory

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

  • On another occasion, Zercher says, she pushed open an unlocked lavatory door to find Clinton standing there, unzipped.

  • 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.

  • KSM told them to watch the cabin doors at takeoff and landing, to observe whether the captain went to the lavatory during the flight, and to note whether the flight attendants brought food into the cockpit.

  • An unclear sense-development of this word is mapped out in the OED , but it seems to concede that the modern sense of lavatory originated at the start of this century: the (British) Army and Navy Stores catalogue of 1926 lists a lavatory paper-holder as one of its items, but it was probably earlier: The Illustrated London News reported in 1860 that each ward of the new Florence Nightingale School of Nursing had its own bathroom, lavatories and closet.

  • Too often prisons are called correction facilities; a lavatory with urinals a bathroom; and as Briggs wrote, dope a controlled substance.


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