How to Use chamber pot in a Sentence

chamber pot

noun
  • The room contained only a chamber pot, a wooden chest and three beds.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Some of those who were enslaved slept in the same bedroom as their enslavers, helping them to the chamber pot in the middle of the night.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • There are wine jugs and kitchen utensils, chamber pots and tiny toothpicks carved from bone.
    Farah Nayeri, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • It was considered a second step to the chamber pot, and both items were kept in the bedroom or dressing chamber.
    Maria Teresa Hart, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Molly farts a bit, gets her period, and uses the chamber pot.
    Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Enlarge / Microscopic egg of a whipworm found in the residue lining the chamber pot.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Wash basins and chamber pots remain undisturbed in officers' rooms.
    Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Perhaps that's why Hough decided to remove a large slice of Mary Lynch's skin from her thighs, tossing them into a chamber pot to better preserve them.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2020
  • As a result, women and children used chamber pots kept in their bedrooms, and men used an outhouse behind the building, where a makeshift shower had also been rigged.
    Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Well ponds must be kept clean: women are strictly forbidden to scrub chamber pots or wash their undergarments in them.
    Lu Yang, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Rather than risk sitting in an outhouse next to Bogart, Hepburn opted to use a chamber pot in her cabin instead.
    Curbed, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The Hagley collection includes miniature sofa beds, table-beds, and wardrobe-beds, plus a bed that combines bookshelves, a writing desk, and a tiny chamber pot.
    Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In a villa just outside of Pompeii, archaeologists have found a tiny room with sparse furnishings: three beds, a chamber pot and a wooden chest.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
  • In addition to the chest and chamber pot, the team found a chariot shaft and amphorae (clay vessels with pointed bottoms), including a collection of eight jugs crammed into a corner.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Enlarge / Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Household items found included parts of dishes, chamber pots and dolls.
    Alex Music, Idaho Statesman, 21 June 2025
  • Several praised the chamber pot, saying it should be brought back into use.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Many of the bathrooms were non-functioning, and the chamber pots were late in arriving—just as an attack of dysentery hit the camp.
    Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024

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