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pigsty

[pig-stahy] / ˈpɪgˌstaɪ /




NOUN
sty
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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

The place was a pigsty, but our boys loved it, collecting dozens of dirty bottles and making giant bottle castles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016

It was a pigsty, with roaches crawling over the bunched-up sheets and garbage on the floor.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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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