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 they found instead was a midden heap, a pigsty, an empty sheepfold, and a windowless daub-and-wattle hall scarce worthy of the name.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
She got to her feet to fight better and remembered that old-fashioned women gave birth in their pigsties to fool the jealous, pain-dealing gods, who do not snatch piglets.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
