How to Use cesspit in a Sentence

cesspit

noun

• Far from perfect, of course, but not the cesspit of dodgy dealings that many think.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 Mar. 2021
• One sergeant was in the rice paddy, and a weapons specialist was knocked out in a cesspit.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• The cesspit under the toilet stops draining.
  — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• Social media sites are a cesspit of soccer scammers.
  — ABC News, 17 June 2026
• The cesspit also contained three dolls made out of bone—toys typical of the period—and an oil lamp.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• The team discovered the egg in a cesspit in the industrial zone of the ancient city of Yavneh.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• The fecal and food sludge emptied into a cesspit or directly into the street, rather than the sewer system.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• The commission cleaned out latrines and cesspits, flushed out sewers and removed a dead horse that was polluting the water supply.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• The team collected 15 sediment samples from the cesspit below the stone toilet seat.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2022
• In Snow’s day, excrement was often stored in cesspits, little more than basements, or sometimes in storage tanks outside.
  — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
• Twitter has been variously described as an echo chamber where people go to have their views confirmed, or a cesspit where harassment and abuse go unchecked.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 June 2017
• Only wealthy elites had toilets, which typically consisted of a hole carved into a slab of stone with a latrine cesspit below for storing the waste.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• One seed, pulled from a medieval cesspit in the remains of a monastery in Orléans, central France, was a perfect match with the modern savagnin blanc grape.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 10 June 2019
• Material from the cesspit radiocarbon dated to the 1400s, but Sabin and her colleagues aren’t sure how many people used it.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• In Israel, meanwhile, researchers discovered an intact, 1,000-year-old chicken egg in a cesspit in the ancient city of Yavne.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
• According to Ars Technica, the Jerusalem samples came from a cesspit that held the contents of at least two households’ toilets; the Riga samples were from a public latrine used by many people.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• Diagon Alley becomes a cesspit of Death Eaters during Halloween Horror Nights, which typically run for more than two months starting in late August.
  — Bailey Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
• Despite the cesspits of conspiracy-think that pollute contemporary politics, the specific paranoia of Letts’s characters — bugs under the skin, brainwashing, nefarious doctors in government labs — feels less blazingly relevant than comparatively quaint.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
• Elsewhere, residents have resorted to digging cesspits as latrine stocks run severely low, leading to soil and water contamination, according to Hosni Nadeem Mohanna, a water municipality spokesperson in Gaza City.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026