How to Use john in a Sentence

john

noun
  • Excuse me, I have to go to the john.
  • Why not attack the john, take his money and be done with it?
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
  • And there along the side street stands a sex worker, also addicted, her throat still bearing the jagged mark of a john’s blade.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 23 June 2017
  • 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 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
  • Fair warning: Bathroom attendants assist you in the john, even though nobody needs or wants that.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The season 9 superstar plays Euphoria, a prostitute who educates Elektra in the ways of the world by telling her about her time in prison after a john beat her up and got her arrested.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 June 2019
  • 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
  • The woman regrets having hurt the feelings of a john who wanted to ask her out.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026

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