take a leak

Example Sentences

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Better, surely, that we all act like adults and exercise some forward-planning, some restraint in the matter of consumption – take a leak while the trailers are on and skip the jumbo soda.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2019

“I hate hearing aids ‘cause when you go take a leak it sounds like 100 gallons of water running,” he quipped.

From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2019

Let the man take a leak in peace!

From Golf Digest • Aug. 26, 2018

Went to take a leak in Moncrief and this was hanging above the toilet.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017

The Vietnamese woman who had brought us rice squatted at the edge of the bush to take a leak.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers