outhouse

Example Sentences

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We used candles, pumped water and had an outhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Following his arrest in May 2024, police found £75,000 in a safe hidden in a brick outhouse in the rear garden of his home in Crankwood Road.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Squish Factor – The outhouse at the dogsledding camp was surprisingly roomy and very clean!

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

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

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