Example sentences for: privy

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

  • The WP adds that Lewis was privy to Lewinsky's taped account of her relationship with Clinton, and that her reaction to her daughter's attempt to conceal it from outsiders was, "What's the big deal?

  • Both Binalshibh and KSM claim that Essabar was not privy to the meaning of the message and had no foreknowledge of the attacks.

  • Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.

  • Limpert was a Felt man long before James Mann wrote his Atlantic article (which, nonetheless, offered up a lot of hard evidence that Limpert wouldn't have been privy to).

  • Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).


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