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sty

[stahy] / staɪ /
NOUN
den
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The place was a sty to begin with and only becomes more squalid after Mick, Keith and Brian move in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Three piglets on the loose from an abandoned sty were foraging in the city street.

From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2022

“Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

Irons glides smoothly over a barrage of judgments in “Marina,” “Death” being embodied in “Those who sit in the sty of contentment” and in “Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.”

From New York Times ● May 17, 2018

I look out at the darkening sty “If you lost your job, we could go home.”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Not all battery sites under 5 megawatts are in urban or suburban areas, but developers say the smaller sties are more likely than larger ones to be closer to population centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Many notable NFL draft experts and web sties projected Banks to go either late in the first round or early in the second.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023

Physical sales came down but revenue from streaming sties like Spotify and Apple Music have gone up, earning the industry nearly £2bn.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2023

And if a mask does not fit properly, it may contribute to eye problems, such as dryness and the reddish bumps called sties.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

Very soon, the meadows were full of milking cows and the sties were full of pigs and the chicken-run was full of chickens.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

In Maye, how all those his scholers loking vpon him, he by his owne vertue and mighte, stied vp into the heauens.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

Examples: "But like the hell hounde thou waxed fall furious, expressing thy malice when thou to honour stied."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown


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