outhouse

Example Sentences

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We used candles, pumped water and had an outhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

He threw himself into the project, spending a week installing a 2,600-gallon water tank, an outhouse and a plywood shack to sleep in with stud walls and a steel door.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Slauson appeared in The Seattle Times in 2006 after a landslide diverted the river through his front yard, taking his driveway, outhouse and shed with it.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

We are now renting a small outhouse with a roof made of tin and plastic.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023

There was no indoor plumbing, and in the bitter winter the trip to the outhouse was one I learned to delay as long as possible.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson