Example Sentences

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I never followed up to learn whether it was in time to restock the park privies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2023

Some of the nobles who lived in the palace or its grounds would use the hallways to relieve themselves instead of the privies because the latter were so inadequate and far from their rooms.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Though sit-down privies and latrines have existed at least since Egyptian antiquity, for almost all of history the vast majority of Homo sapiens defecated squatting, in the open.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2018

The pungent aroma of low tide and warm privies hung in the humid air.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2018

Seemed to me if they filled in the privies, locked up the school, and threw the key down the well, they could save some real money and do us all a service.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck