pigsty

Example Sentences

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There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022

I don’t know what to do, and I can’t just “let it go” because no one should live in a pigsty, and I’d hate for her whole house to be like this when she’s older.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2021

The place was a pigsty, but our boys loved it, collecting dozens of dirty bottles and making giant bottle castles.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy