urinal
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The piece proved an immediate hit, with critics comparing it to ready-made master Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 porcelain urinal, “Fountain.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Staff at the emergency department there started adapting the disposable male urinal bottle for women to use, lessening the need for catheters and making life more dignified and pain-free in hospital.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
Mr Holding, from Beckenham in south-east London, became trapped underneath the telescopic urinal, which dropped on him while he was working on the device, his inquest was told.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
I said, No. 1, don’t talk to me while we’re at the urinal and then really?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
I made it to the blessed urinal, which was really just a long, waist-high sheet of tin screwed to the wall with a trough sort of thing below it.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Even if cubicles were slightly more expensive to maintain or consumed more water, this would not necessarily be enough to justify a price difference compared with urinals, she added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
There are a total of 12 men's toilets with 67 stalls and urinals across the building, according to local media reports.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
I base this not on any grand political theory but on how many times I stood next to members of Congress at urinals at DCA during my years living in D.C.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025
The urinals — see the particularly majestic Deco “Radio” Adamsez iteration in the gentleman’s cloakroom of the old Derry and Toms building, Kensington — elevate the form to art even before Duchamp.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Jerry Grindstaff entered an empty men’s room, and, positioning himself at the center one of three urinals, unzipped his fly.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
