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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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