How to Use outhouse in a Sentence

outhouse

noun
Definition of outhousenext
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  • One outhouse was for the boys and one was for the girls.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The outhouse burned, so a neighbor brought him a new one.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The toilet in the outhouse hadn’t been emptied in more than a year.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • But the talk of the day was the outhouse donated by The Country Store in Avon.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019
  • Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet away from the yurt.
    — Mark Thiessen, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2021
  • He was awakened in the middle of the night by a loud noise and went outside to the outhouse.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 16 June 2019
  • The outhouse stood beside the driveway in full view of Ohio 18.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • There’s no heat, and the outhouse serves as the only bathroom.
    — Hannah Farrow, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The school closed in the 1970s, and the little white church with a double outhouse out back has long sat idle.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • There’s nothing worse than a trip to the outhouse in cold weather.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2024
  • But that didn't stop two black bear sows from parking their cubs in trees near the outhouse.
    — Lisa Maloney, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Plus, a grippy outsole steadies you on the icy trail to the outhouse.
    — Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2019
  • An old wooden outhouse rests at the edge of a clearing.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The high camp stood tucked in a snowy slash of pine, three white canvas tents and a matching outhouse.
    — Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
  • It’s believed the bear entered the outhouse through a hole downhill from it.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Three structures, two barns and an outhouse, were charred.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
  • The flight brought us to Cargair's Camp 15, three cabins, a meat shed and two outhouses on the shore of Lac Demitte.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Their home has an outhouse and lacks running water, apart from a well with a pump.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Afterwards, head past the outhouse and enter the church.
    — Verna Gates, al, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Guests have a heated outhouse and private hot tub for their use.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The Airbnb is stocked with guitars and Zydeco vinyl, and guests have access to what may be the world’s cutest outhouse.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
  • And fight to protect the town’s one historic landmark — an outhouse.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The toilets at the Foggia airfield were simple holes in the ground with an outhouse over it, just like those on Texas farms.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Tales extend to the adjoining cemetery and even the church’s outhouse.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Shake out your boots before slipping them on for that late-night outhouse run.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Outside is the only bathroom in Meliandou, an outhouse with tiles placed around two holes in the ground.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Flowers grew up in the area, in a house with an outhouse instead of indoor toilets.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Chenneville walked into the Halls' backyard and headed to the outhouse to take a look at Mollie Smith.
    — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Few had indoor bathrooms or even outhouses, and many farm wives had to walk hundreds of yards to get household water.
    — Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Cornered in an outhouse with the Captain, the General suspects there must be a spy who’s sowing discontent among the refugees and orders the Captain to suss out the culprit.
    — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024

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