sty
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Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.
From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022
“Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022
They stashed him away in a pig sty, but it kept him alive, as enemy soldiers continued their search for Americans.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2018
Otherwise, you might as well join the rest of them in the sty!
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2017
I felt as sorry for him as I had felt for a litter of helpless pigs bom in our backyard sty in Arkansas.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Vocabulary lists containing sty
Scrabble: Words with no Vowels
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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