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Recent Examples of lavatory Witnesses and law enforcement sources told WLS that a passenger scuffled with crewmembers mid-air, and a bomb threat was found written on a note in a lavatory a short time later. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024 Nearby, makeshift pits shielded by burlap serve as lavatories. Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2024 As for staying away from the galleys and lavatories, those are two of the most disruptive spaces on planes. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2024 Flight attendants have also landed in hot water for shuffling nursing mothers into the lavatory and not allowing their breast pumps on board. Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lavatory 
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Noun
  • Then notice how much fresher your bathroom smells. 6.
    Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • First is a lengthy 12-minute cold open: a flash-forward that almost immediately answers the Kevin Costner question by revealing that Governor John Dutton has been shot and killed in the bathroom of his governor’s mansion in Helena.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Unlike many professional sports stadiums that pipe audio of the game broadcast into restroom speakers, Intuit Dome, the brand-new home of the Los Angeles Clippers, plays a different soundtrack for fans using its more than 1,100 touchless toilets and urinals: pop music.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The park also operates several warming huts, which feature restrooms and may even have light snacks.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • If toilets aren’t subject to Coriolis forces, hair certainly isn’t either, Willems says.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There were also concerns about plumbing since Brownstone had replaced a toilet in the basement with a shower stall, according to the notice issued by the Department of Building Inspections.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Lavatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lavatory. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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