How to Use urinal in a Sentence

urinal

noun
Definition of urinalnext
  • Even the Port-A-Potties have sprigs of mint in the urinals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • 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
  • There are no urinals and the space is open to all genders.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a Persian rug under the urinal in the men’s room.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • About 40 percent of the toilets and urinals didn't work.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2017
  • A target in the back corner of the toilet or urinal will light up when hit with a urine stream.
    — S. M. Chavey, Twin Cities, 14 June 2017
  • 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
  • Last month, the district replaced the urinal and seems to have addressed the drain problem.
    — Sharon Noguchi, The Mercury News, 24 May 2017
  • 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
  • The boy walked from the urinal to the outside of the stall and waited for the man, later identified as Mulkey, to exit his stall.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2019
  • A row of urinals lined a wall of their loft, which was, perhaps, a touch more Marcel Duchamp than the couple had in mind.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 7 July 2017
  • There's another full bar with beer taps--and the guest bathroom even has a urinal.
    — David A. Keeps, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2011
  • In the three heists, 16 brass plumbing fixtures were stolen from toilets and urinals.
    — Jeff Weiner, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Paris isn't the first global capital to use open-air urinals.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Even the bathroom’s sinks and urinals went through a phase where they were painted a sparkly gold. Because why not?
    — Paolo Lucchesi, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Brewster took his resume and taped them above the urinals in every bathroom.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Like all the Longhorns, Hughes pays special attention at the urinal.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In bathrooms, every other sink and urinal will be taped off.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 1 May 2020
  • Countless hikers, campers, and road-trippers have faced this dilemma—and for many, there's one tool that saves the day: a female urinal.
    — Rebecca Deczynski, Health.com, 3 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The women’s side has three toilet stalls, while the men’s side has two stalls and three urinals, the same number as before the renovation.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The women’s side has three toilet stalls, while the men’s side has two stalls and three urinals — the same number as before the renovation.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Come for the spectacular imagery — a shot of three trans women using urinals wearing skirts is immortal — and stay for the bloody Oedipus twist.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Silly gaffes, like mistaking a public urinal for a monument and taking selfies in front of it, come across as charming quirks on television.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024

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