How to Use john in a Sentence

john

noun

• Excuse me, I have to go to the john.
• The woman regrets having hurt the feelings of a john who wanted to ask her out.
  — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
• The makers say the johns are made of a super-strong fibrous concrete that can hold up even after a bomb explodes inside.
  — Adam Rawnsley, WIRED, 9 June 2011
• Bahr said Jane Doe 2 and two male compatriots may have been planning to rob a ``john'' that night at the motel.
  — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2018
• The health-management toilet, a smart john built by the Japanese company Toto, contains a diagnostic system that uses biosensor input to examine your, uh, output.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 May 1998
• The arrival of Miranda (Amber Tamblyn), a semi-prostitute with serious student-loan debt and a possibly murderous john, complicates the ménage.
  — The New Yorker, 5 June 2017