Example sentences for: privy

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

  • If one is to go by Florio's use of close-stool, it seems interchangeable with another, less notorious, term for a privy, the ajax.

  • The word privy is one of the earliest euphemisms used in England; an anonymous writer at the turn of the fifteenth century advised whanne he sitteth at privy he schal not streyne him-silf to harde.

  • The information on which the account is based comes from sources who were not privy to the full scope of al Qaeda andTaliban planning.

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

  • He'll know that time is up when his brother, working for the government and privy to top-secret information, sends him a telegram with the words "Alas, Babylon."


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