Example sentences for: toilets

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

  • Showers and toilets are on hand, as is the pleasant La Gaviota (the Seagull), a restaurant/bar, and the views north of the cliffs falling straight into the ocean and being pounded by waves are breathtaking.

  • Most have lifeguards on duty from April to October, changing rooms, toilets, and snack stands.

  • A welfare recipient compared New York's workfare program to "slavery" and protested that it was "demeaning" to clean toilets.

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • [Note to non-British readers: spend a penny is a British idiom meaning go to the lavatory, obviously a reference to the ubiquity of pay toilets.]


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