pigsty

Example Sentences

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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

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

Otis Akkerson got thrown from his horse and ended up facedown in Mr. Cybulskis’s pigsty?

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool