How to Use outhouse in a Sentence

outhouse

noun
  • How a team can go from the castle to the outhouse overnight.
    — Doug Haller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • From the outhouse to the penthouse.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But that didn't stop two black bear sows from parking their cubs in trees near the outhouse.
    — Lisa Maloney, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Behind the fire circle is an outhouse or a shed.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Guests have a heated outhouse and private hot tub for their use.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The outhouse is more compelling.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • The toilet in the outhouse hadn’t been emptied in more than a year.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • There’s nothing worse than a trip to the outhouse in cold weather.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2024
  • There’s no heat, and the outhouse serves as the only bathroom.
    — Hannah Farrow, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Shake out your boots before slipping them on for that late-night outhouse run.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Their home has an outhouse and lacks running water, apart from a well with a pump.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The high camp stood tucked in a snowy slash of pine, three white canvas tents and a matching outhouse.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Plus, a grippy outsole steadies you on the icy trail to the outhouse.
    — Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2019
  • He was awakened in the middle of the night by a loud noise and went outside to the outhouse.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 16 June 2019
  • And not just tipping over outhouses, but setting stuff on fire.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Bathrooms are mostly outhouses; the ground is too frozen for pipes.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Bathrooms are mostly outhouses; the ground is too frozen for pipes.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • And fight to protect the town’s one historic landmark — an outhouse.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Flowers grew up in the area, in a house with an outhouse instead of indoor toilets.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The outhouse stood beside the driveway in full view of Ohio 18.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • The bathrooms are outhouse-style, and people boil large barrels of water to bathe.
    — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet away from the yurt.
    — Mark Thiessen, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Tales extend to the adjoining cemetery and even the church’s outhouse.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The family used an outhouse and bathed in a tub beside a woodstove; water came from a well down the road.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Tatum was raised in a modest home near Rockville Road with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Outside is the only bathroom in Meliandou, an outhouse with tiles placed around two holes in the ground.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The school closed in the 1970s, and the little white church with a double outhouse out back has long sat idle.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • At the end of each climbing season, raw sewage from the mountain’s outhouses was flushed down the rock face, leaving a stench in its wake.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • At the end of each climbing season, raw sewage from the mountain’s outhouses was flushed down the rock face, leaving a stench in its wake.
    — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • All that remained were a couple of roofless outhouses subsumed by foliage.
    — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026

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