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

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

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

He did not notice that the walls of his house were eager for a coat of paint, that the furniture was falling apart, and that the kitchen had turned into a pigsty.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende