sty
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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
Her long staff in her hand, she left the hall and opened up the sty.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
The protesters were bussed to various sties where Zhang said they were forced to sign a letter guaranteeing they would not gather anymore.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
As both actor and playwright, Jesse Eisenberg loves rolling in the sties of self-contempt, places where privileged human pigs sniffle and suffer and smear themselves with muck.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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