Explore Latrine through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like convenience or restroom. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Latrine meaning
- An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
- Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
- A chamber pot.
Synonyms of Latrine
Using Latrine
- The main meaning on this page is: An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation. | Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse. | A chamber pot.
- Useful related words include: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, convenience.
- In the example corpus, latrine often appears in combinations such as: the latrine, latrine and, pit latrine.
Context around Latrine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Latrine
- In this selection, "latrine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pit, vip, flush, must, artisans and outside stand out and add context to how "latrine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in a latrine and 3 holer latrine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "latrine" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with latrine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Does OMG have information about a killing in a latrine? (10 words)
At dawn, the last two sappers were found in a 3 holer latrine. (13 words)
Currently, up to 100 people must use a single latrine and water supplies often run short. (16 words)
He added, “I didn’t commission the VIP latrine at Kayini Kamwokya Primary School whose value was shs31,704,152 because the contractor Ms Jalum Holdings Ltd had failed to do proper finishing works. (34 words)
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) was told that a week after his release from police cells, Yakubu built a personal latrine, and took up a sanitation natural leader position in his community. (32 words)
So, if a woman has to go for urinal or latrine, then for sure she has to attend it in open sky or she has to wait for several minutes. (30 words)
Does OMG have information about a killing in a latrine? (10 words)
Cattle whose fate is to end up in the cooking pot, the stomach and eventually the latrine! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
He added, “I didn’t commission the VIP latrine at Kayini Kamwokya Primary School whose value was shs31,704,152 because the contractor Ms Jalum Holdings Ltd had failed to do proper finishing works.
However, last night, she reportedly woke up yelling that her baby was missing, prompting the neighbors to do a night search when they found the toddler in a latrine.
He said that through the ventilator of the latrine he saw the rebels killing 4 members of his family including his wife and 3 children.
I can only imagine what the people using that latrine must think of the fact that they have to see an NGO logo every time they do their business.
So, if a woman has to go for urinal or latrine, then for sure she has to attend it in open sky or she has to wait for several minutes.
A pour-flush latrine, the type mostly preferred, requires at least 12 litres of water per use.
However, after realising that the body could be easily spotted in the pit latrine she hurried back to retrieve it.
The Ghana News Agency (GNA) was told that a week after his release from police cells, Yakubu built a personal latrine, and took up a sanitation natural leader position in his community.
There was no latrine, no provision… On top of everything else, a lot of people had vomited on the floor.
The statement called on government to give assemblies across the country the needed resources to train more latrine artisans to ensure that open defecation is totally eradicated.
They said Codjoe, 33, accompanied his wife to a latrine outside their Bamboo Trace, Tunapuna, home at around 10.30 pm on Saturday.
A latrine project led and financed by Oxfam for displaced Haitians living in Port-au-Prince in 2011.
At dawn, the last two sappers were found in a 3 holer latrine.
But, somehow, some landlords locked the household latrine and told their tenants to go to the bushes because the water sources were dry.
Cattle whose fate is to end up in the cooking pot, the stomach and eventually the latrine!
Currently, up to 100 people must use a single latrine and water supplies often run short.
Does OMG have information about a killing in a latrine?
In a township or village setting the remains will be thrown into a pit latrine or buried somewhere.
Under such leadership, at all levels of government, you would then not have a Life Esidimeni or yet another child drowning in a pit latrine.
Episcopium No one lived in the house church at Dura; such residential facilities as the latrine and kitchen were removed in the conversion.
Common combinations with latrine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the latrine 4×
- latrine and 4×
- pit latrine 3×
- in latrine 2×