sanitaries
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Facilities for handling human waste; Structure containing toilets, seats over a cesspit, or tanks for holding excrement.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Building clean, lack of cloak rooms, poor ventilation; sanitaries need attention."
- "The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers."
- "I'm blowing sanitaries. You pull the lever on that crapper and a few hundred pounds of smelly stuff will fly up your nose in a heart beat."
- "She headed for the sanitaries rather than the exterior hatch, and Zhang could clearly hear her vomiting inside the tiny compartment."
- "He picked up his white sanitaries and the red and white striped stirrup socks and sat down on the dressing stool once again before he slipped his feet into the sanitaries, making sure that the elastic tops reached just above his knees."
- "The 1909 Genoa High School Baseball Club members are shown wearing striped leggings, or stirrups, over white stockings called “sanitaries.”"