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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

“Once I jumped in that sty," he said, "I was going to be stuck wrestling in there for a while.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2018

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

"What is the difference between a pig sty and the sixth grade?"

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

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

Uber and Lyft are teaming up with pharmacies to offer free or discounted rides to vaccination sties.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2021

For that 10-year-old study, the IG selected five states and 10 localities and looked at their ability to create alternative care sties.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

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

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

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




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