How to Use latrine in a Sentence

latrine

noun
  • The latrines were right next to the food.
    — Amanda Rosa updated April 28, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Fesler just wants to keep his car from turning into a latrine.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 July 2019
  • The group also tends to dig latrine sites and holes for compost pits and gray water.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Travelling to the mess tent and the latrine required hooking in to ropes.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The drain carried waste from the communal latrine to a stream towards the north of the fort.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2025
  • She was stripped of her security clearance and forced to clean the men’s latrines.
    — Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • Bangladeshi villages are studded with small pit latrines and tubewells for water.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Throughout Rwanda, roads, rivers, and pit latrines were clogged with rotting corpses.
    — Phil Clark, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Bangladesh’s neighbour, India, has subsidised and built a great many latrines.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Solitary confinement cells were tiny, a meter wide and two meters long with a latrine hole at one end.
    — Bassem Mroue, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Sewage nearly overflows in the few portable latrines lining one side of the camp.
    — ExpressNews.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Although the tubewells are often alarmingly close to the latrines, that seems to be fine.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But their breakthrough came from the latrine, which had been built within a larger timber building.
    — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly a billion of those people use unsafe pit latrines or buckets, or defecate in the open.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The self-sealing plastic molds come in three varieties and can embed in a concrete base around any open latrine.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2021
  • In the corner were two roofless latrines—one with the toilet and the other with a tap, bucket and footstool for bathing.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Workers at these farms often live in squalid conditions and use open latrines, and they are sometimes cheated out of their pay.
    — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Film footage shows Vietnam veterans teaching inmates how to make tents and a latrine.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Bonds organized players to lift up the latrine while Redell was still inside.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The camps were surrounded by open-pit latrines, and the smell of sewage was overpowering; children lay around with flies on them.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The aid workers record the number of residents in each tent, as well as the number of latrines and kitchens in the settlement.
    — Abby Sewell, Wired, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Following an eight-month siege, French forces collapsed part of the structure and entered the main fortress via its latrines.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2020
  • And parasites in a castle latrine in Cyprus attest to the poor health endured by crusaders.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • At the city’s public latrines, 36 holes upon which people took their comfort breaks line the walls above a drainage system.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • When the rains come, latrines are likely to overflow, bringing the risk of cholera and other waterborne diseases.
    — Somini Sengupta and Henry Fountain, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The team took 50 sediment samples along the length of the roughly 30-foot-long latrine drain.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Dec. 2025
  • As Yemi Nakagawa’s belly swelled, she was forced to use group showers and a latrine dug in the ground.
    — Hannah Kirshner, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • But the gains decline to 60 cents if, as often happens, the new social norms fail to take hold and the latrines fall into disuse.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The commission cleaned out latrines and cesspits, flushed out sewers and removed a dead horse that was polluting the water supply.
    — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020

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