Sentence examples for the privies from inspiring English sources
noun
An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
"The privies have to be left outside," Beckie shouted.
But now some treasure hunters are finding that the privies they covet are already claimed by archaeologists.
In the past, keeping the privies on the eastern side of the Inyo National Forest clean between helicopter flights was a huge headache.
Mr. Rutsch is hoping to find buried under the debris of the last two centuries, the privies and wells of the early residents, which would have been dug deep.
In that journal, Elizabeth S. Peña, an archaeologist at the State University at Buffalo, and Jacqueline Denmon, an archaeologist at Boston University, gleaned the "social organization of a boardinghouse" by digging through the privies of Buffalo.
The privies may be gone, but students still go outside in their bathrobes to use the modern bathrooms behind their dormitories or to collect firewood in winter for their individual fireplaces.
Why the privy? A. Think about it.
I believe in the privy council.
Wall, meanwhile, reached the bottom of the privy.
Then she introduced me to the privy in the backyard.
Hauser is on the privy when he is violently attacked.
