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Example sentences for: lavatory

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Among these are: “Get Back” (a sign flashed on TV to invite or command the viewer to return after the commercial, or maybe promising that the production will return then); “Pants 50% Down” (ad for a sale); “in my side” (for my part; on my side of the argument); “Step the Pedal — Water Will Flow” (sign in a train lavatory); “Drive-Thru Window” (at the bank); “How do you doing?”
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.
), its blasé invocation of an all-enveloping legal regime ("We remind you that it is a federal offense to tamper with, disable, or destroy any lavatory smoke detector.
On another occasion, Zercher says, she pushed open an unlocked lavatory door to find Clinton standing there, unzipped.
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.