How to Use urinal in a Sentence

urinal

noun
  • The men, on the other hand, had three stalls and two urinals.
    Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The man knelt down and put his head in the urinal, Rabago said.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • For instance, in the men's room, there may be three dozen urinals and just as many stalls.
    Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2024
  • There's another full bar with beer taps--and the guest bathroom even has a urinal.
    David A. Keeps, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2011
  • Paris isn't the first global capital to use open-air urinals.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Would there be special urinals that dispense discount beer coupons?
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 May 2017
  • Using a dish sponge from the teachers’ lounge to wipe urinals and toilets and putting the sponge back in the lounge.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
  • Stuck on a platform that smells like some guy has been using it as a urinal for the last 18 months?
    Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
  • Brewster took his resume and taped them above the urinals in every bathroom.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Last month, the district replaced the urinal and seems to have addressed the drain problem.
    Sharon Noguchi, The Mercury News, 24 May 2017
  • Once the urinal is flushed, the water stream reveals the film’s release date on Disney+.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In the three heists, 16 brass plumbing fixtures were stolen from toilets and urinals.
    Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Public funds would no longer be used to purchase items that bind breasts, remove hair or allow trans men to use urinals.
    Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • So, before a flush look for clear or very pale yellow water in the toilet or urinal, say the experts.
    Bill Lindelof, sacbee, 22 June 2017
  • There are few portable toilets and urinals, and just one set of spigots where migrants wash clothes.
    Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • Goodison Park is awake again and someone is talking about urinals.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Both areas also had separate rows of urinals.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Nineteen artists have turned toilet seats and urinals into works of art that address the needs of public bathrooms.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Above the urinal in the men’s bathroom is Marilyn Monroe singing to a large crowd of troops.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2019
  • Eddie Redmayne, a nominee for best actor that year, smiled and squeezed by on his way to the row of urinals.
    Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Multiple times during the trip, the crew had to use manual urinals instead.
    Brendan Byrne, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The ban on urinals approved by the board was offered as a compromise measure to the proposal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The Ford was also designed without urinals, which use less water than toilets.
    Steve Walsh, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Former managers of mine would find small bags, with only remnants of their former substances, left on the tops of urinals or on dance floors.
    Anna Silman, The Cut, 7 May 2018
  • Actually, a lot of people are talking about urinals.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Like all the Longhorns, Hughes pays special attention at the urinal.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • On a recent night in the emergency ward, the women’s bathroom had no soap and the men’s room had no functioning urinals.
    Benjamin Novak, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2019
  • On the night of the attack, one of the rooms doubled as a makeshift bathroom, with cut up plastic water bottles serving as urinals.
    Tamara Qiblawi, Arwa Damon and Brice Laine, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The artist’s work seems to have as much in common with a regular fish tank as Duchamp’s urinal has with an actual toilet.
    M.h. Miller, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Yet, the event — which called for women to pee in a urinal in the city center — had to be canceled after too many women wanted to attend.
    Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Sep. 2017

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