pigsty

Example Sentences

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We’re jazzed and we’re hungry and we can’t face returning to the pigsty that is our Langley Park apartment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

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

He had a shattered leg, so was carried and dragged across a field by Pte O'Callaghan, who swerved to avoid a barn full of SS soldiers cooking a meal, until they found a pigsty.

From BBC • May 28, 2022

Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago