pigsty
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In Klong Toey, he met a Catholic nun, Sister Maria Chantavarodom, now 92, who led him through the narrow lanes and joined him in founding the tiny school in a former pigsty.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
There was no way I could take a woman on a date in such a pigsty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
In the absence of help, nearly anyone with baby twins has a pigsty of a house.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2022
Their flat is a "pigsty", laughs Rebecca Ratcliffe, cluttered with campaign materials.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022
“What are you going to do there anyway, in that pigsty? Live with the animals? It’s filthy there.”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023
Some farmers supplemented their income with fruit orchards, planting trees next to open-air pigsties — perfect flying fox buffets.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
Mattila sat in pigsties and chicken coops to confirm that honey bees were landing in poop.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 9, 2020
As bats foraged among the farms’ trees, saliva-soaked pieces of fruit would have fallen into the pigsties, providing the pigs with irresistible morsels and repeated doses of the virus.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
Cowsheds, stables, pigsties, barns, bungalows, hayricks, anything that got in its way went toppling over like a nine-pin.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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